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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Who Built the Moon? (Universal Music Canada) 3/5 Noel Gallagher recently managed to stop talking long enough to record Who Built the Moon?, the third full-length from his current band, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. The release is his most experimental work to date—the former Oasis guitarist has teamed up […]

Until Wednesday, December 20 Menstrual products for those in need Period Posse is a group who collects menstrual products for the less fortunate; they’re accepting cash and online donations on behalf of the Cool Aid Society. See coolaid.org/donate to make a contribution; head over to the group’s Facebook page to see pick-up locations. Until Sunday, […]

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign run by the United Nations; it takes place annually from November 25—the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women—to December 10, Human Rights Day. Camosun Applied Business Technology instructor Julia Grav is organizing events on campus as part of the campaign; Grav […]

Les Belles-Soeurs is Langham Court Theatre’s finale to a year of plays celebrating the greatest Canadian playwrights. I was new to the material of playwright Michel Tremblay, and also to Langham; I was impressed with both. The play is set in the ’60s, in a kitchen and living area of a Montreal tenement, where an […]

The documentary The Road Forward, directed by Marie Clements, brings the story of the rise of indigenous activism in British Columbia to the big screen. The documentary encourages viewers to look at indigenous culture and history from the perspective of indigenous people. Clements does a very good job with making the audience feel closer to […]

The Madwoman of Chaillot takes place in a Parisian cafe; the story starts with a group of businessmen who have discovered oil in that area and want to exploit it. Countess Aurelia, an eccentric aristocrat, gathers a group of local artists and dreamers to stand against the men. In the beginning, I thought the play […]

Posters promoting alt-right websites and displaying a known anti-Semitic symbol were found on bulletin boards in the University of Victoria’s Cornett building in late October. The posters featured an image of a white family with the words “Those who hate us will not replace us,” with the word “those” in triple parentheses, an anti-Semitic symbol. […]

By the time I found parking and walked across the University of Victoria’s Ring Road on Saturday, November 4—a cold fall night—I was happy to be in the warm Farquhar Auditorium to catch the satirical revue Canada, It’s Complicated. But I still didn’t quite know what to expect, aside from some satire about our country. […]

Thomas Uphill is a legend. The fact that we can enjoy delicious craft brew at home and in establishments all over BC today is due in large part to Uphill’s tenacity in changing government policy. Remembered by some but unknown to many, Uphill was an MLA representing the district of Fernie from 1920 to 1960. […]

The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) held its fall elections from October 23 to October 25. This was the second round of elections where voting was conducted online, and it resulted in another voter turnout larger than the CCSS usually gets in its elections. Of 9,431 eligible student voters, 960 voted; during their last elections, […]