Five UVic food outlets have received failing grades from the local health authority in the last four months.

Another round of negotiations saw no resolution to the wage dispute that has closed the Student Union Building since Sept. 4.

BC Transit expanded its service to UVic starting Sept. 2, with the addition of new buses and more pickups as a result of new government funding.

Just like our southern neighbours, Canadians will cast a critical vote this fall. On Oct. 14, voters will have their say in a referendum on the performance of our Parliament and who we want to lead it.

Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion says his federal plan to tax carbon won’t double the burden on B.C., where gas has been taxed at the pump since July 1.

UVic psychology student Stephanie Dixon will return home from the Paralympic Games on Sept. 19 with four medals in hand.

An adapted wheelchair, the TrailRider, aims to provide access for people with disabilities to a wide variety of outdoor opportunities, from enjoying local nature trails to reaching the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Victoria will host the highest calibre of Canadian rugby during the Vikes 2008-09 season. ith all five of the Vancouver Island Elite League teams qualifying for the provincials last year, and a large number of national players training locally, the hits will be harder, the runs craftier and the intensity higher.

Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

The Afrikaan word “braai” (rhyming with “pie”) is synonymous with barbecue, and is used as a noun for the grill, or a verb for the partying itself.

Cinema usually follows a hackneyed and formulaic approach to the teen blockbuster, hoping to cash in on the awkward teenager in all of us. The football captain stands up for what’s right, the dorky girl commands inner beauty and, despite it all, the right guy gets the girl.

Autorickshaws, or tuk tuks, are ubiquitous in Delhi. Their green bodies and yellow canvas roofs zip around the city carrying passengers from one end to the other for roughly the price of one Victoria bus ride.

Whether it’s your first or fourth year of university, there are exciting new social blunders to be committed, enlightening classes you’ll skip in favour of five more minutes in bed, and such fine dining that you’ll find it on the menu every day of the school year.

Quirky beats are a rare gem among empty lyrics

Canada has produced more than its share of exceptional athletes. Among these are, of course, our Paralympians in Beijing, including Chelsey Gotell, Diane Roy, Chantal Peticlerc and UVic’s own Stephanie Dixon. On Sunday, Sept. 14, many of us celebrated the remarkable achievement of another exceptional Canadian athlete named Terry Fox.

This campus is a hotbed of music snobbery. It doesn’t matter what the genre, what you listen to is never cool enough for the people around you.

An estimated 200 Iraq War resisters and their families are currently living in Canada. These men and women, for whatever reason, decided they would not fight in Iraq. Whether or not the Canadian government should let them stay is a contentious issue. Gemma Karstens-Smith (GKS) and Cody Willett (CW) take on the debate.

Suzy the tiger is famous. She isn’t a spokesperson for cereal or gasoline. She’s simply a tiger that happens to be living in the Highlands – a district just northwest of Victoria.

In their Sept. 8 issue, Maclean’s covered a study published recently by the Canadian Council on Learning. Designed as part of the Composite Learning Index project, it aimed to assess Canada’s overall lifelonglearning standards. The CCL ranked approximately 4,700 communities, assigning them a rank and judging their “smarts.”

Only several months prior to my arrival at UVic, I was watching TV when I received the shock of my life. I found myself staring at the screen like a person passing a tragic car accident: horrified, nearly sick and completely glued to what I was watching. The show featured puppy mills.

Out in Tsawwassen, not far from the ferry terminal, we were driving home after a late night poker game. A small shadow darted into the road, then quickly disappeared beneath the hood of his car. Shane hit the brakes, bringing his car to a jolting stop in the middle of the highway.

I don’t have a cellphone. This summer, while moving homes, I was even without a landline for awhile. I’ve learned many things from my pay phone sojourns, including discovering the disparate varieties in connection qualities.