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It’s winter break after a long semester. Exams are completed, papers are in, and I’m ready to go to my family’s home in Comox and unplug for a few weeks. Relieved that I don’t have to brave winter ...

Some know him as a bad-tempered war hero. Some know him as a caring leader. Who truly was the legendary Chief Tzouhalem (Ts’uwxilum) of Cowichan? The new feature documentary, Tzouhalem, allows ...

It’s 1997, and Art Wilson has work to do. Art usually finds himself in the background, but the hereditary chiefs had recently called on the public to demonstrate why the land is theirs. Day and night, ...

Mary* was hesitant about visiting the hospital. But, frustrated by the various mental health clinics she’d been directed to over the past seven months, she picked up the phone to call a suicide help ...

Graphic by Sie Douglas-Fish. The language almost sounds familiar. Its unusual verbs intertwine with French nouns in a grammatical structure that pulls me to the very edge of comprehension and leaves ...

Did you miss the tenth annual Victoria Beer Week earlier this month? Well don’t worry, this city is full of great breweries that you can enjoy any time, and I narrowed down your search. Here are my ...

Across B.C., tree planters take to the woods every summer to plant seedlings. As the trees begin to take root, bonds also begin forming between the tree planters. In One Million Trees, a new ...

Last fall, Sarah, a UVic student, went swimming at McKinnon pool. To keep pace with a friend, she borrowed a pair of too-small flippers from the facility. When she put them on, she didn’t notice the ...

It was a typical clear day outside the Bay Centre in Victoria — a busker played guitar, while pedestrians waited for the lit-up figure of a man to indicate they’re safe to walk — when two teenage boys ...

Six students in a 400-level environmental studies course are working to convert the green roof atop the David Turpin Building (DTB) into productive gardens to increase food security and build ...

Greta Thunberg is not the first young person to address the United Nations. A year before Thunberg’s emotional “#HowDareYou” speech made global headlines, Autumn Peltier gave an impassioned address to ...