UVic student group Youth Protecting Youth (YPY) was denied club funding for the third time in the past year at the UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) Board of Directors ...

The UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) Board of Directors has voted down a proposal to endorse a package aimed at fundamentally reforming the Canadian Federation of ...

The B.C. government cut $77 million from arts funding last summer, cuts which have affected arts and culture workers all over B.C. Now the cuts are hitting home, right ...

UVic is making its academic research accessible to everyone. The university has been granted $1.5 million to fund two projects that will focus on the preservation ...

For those ready to specialize in the art of commerce, UVic has gone one step further. Please welcome the new Doctorate of Business, brought to you by UVic’s Faculty ...

The UVic Vikes men’s rugby team moved one step closer to a Barnard Cup birth on Saturday, Nov. 7, holding off a late surge from Castaway-Wanderers to take a 25-12 ...

Cyril Indome (24) led the way with 19 points in a 75-66 victory over their conference rivals, the Alberta Bears at Mackinnon Gym on Friday, Nov. 13. Indome scored eight ...

Rowing After an eight-year drought, the UVic men’s rowing team captured its fifth national championship on Nov. 1 at Montreal’s Olympic Basin. The Vikes captured ...

The royal visit to Canada at the beginning of November has created a media buzz around the relevancy of the British monarchy to our country. On Nov. 6, Prince Charles ...

The Writing on the Wall is not your ordinary theatre experience. For starters, there’s no theatre. There’s no plot. The audience comes and goes. And the set is ...

What do you think of when you hear the name Matthew Good? Angry rocker? Scruffy looking? Politically charged lyrics? Good played a sold-out show Saturday, Nov. 7, at ...

Tara Saracuse has known she wanted to be a writer since Grade 1. “I remember sitting cross-legged on that terrible, scratchy carpet. Our teacher was reading us The ...

By now the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” is a tired cliché, reminiscent of a time when we weren’t being constantly bombarded with images in the ...

A new technology developed by a team of UVic researchers may provide a great leap forward in the field of viral research. The technology, developed in collaboration ...

Sneezes and sniffles and vaccines, oh my! Flu season is in full swing and, with people dropping faster than cash on hand sanitizer, what’s a poor vegan to do? ...

Tired of those over-done alternative styles, like Grunge, Goth and Emo? Try on something a little more classic — become a Steampunk. Steampunk, a sub-genre of ...

“Go beyond” is a familiar phrase for one UVic-based group, dedicated to helping people see climate change as a global project that starts in your backyard. Common ...

The finale of the 2009 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) opened with the noun-bouncing, adjective objectifying, viral verb conjugating first lady of the ...

When I got my ticket to see Dinosaur Jr. Nov. 11, I didn’t have high expectations. I had just seen them in Seattle the week before and, while I thought it was totally ...

When it comes to the Green Party, Elizabeth May’s recent campaign to win the Saanich-Gulf Islands federal seat has dominated media attention. But what about other ...

The 2010 Olympic Games events have been saturated with mainstream media coverage. But one Victoria event is making sure local independent media gets a go at the Games, ...

An outspoken NATO critic, once described as “the bravest woman in Afghanistan,” labeled the Canadian Prime Minister “the warlord of Canada,” last week at UVic. ...

Is there less child welfare funding for First Nations children? In 2008, the Canadian Human Rights Comission followed up on this question posed by the I am a ...

It’s not just about remembering things that happened a long time ago. It’s remembering things that happened really recently — and making sure they don’t happen ...

Climate change is a growing issue for many governments, but one group of students at UVic think Canada’s leaders could be doing quite a bit better. Calling themselves ...

Few who were born and raised in a “western” country would argue against the merits of democratic governance. We unquestioningly accept our democratic institutions ...

Gender. What is the root of its social relevance? And why, we ask at a time like the Trans Day of Remembrance, does it have so much power? Social constructions and ...

Life in Canada isn’t a game of euchre. My rights don’t trump his and hers, and the other guy’s don’t trump mine. But when the cards start getting mixed up and ...

What good is one day carved out of 365 to remember those lost to gender-based violence? It’s a shot in the arm for us to realize how important these issues are — issues ...

As an individual raised on environmental values (once-per-week showers), it angers me that, despite knowing otherwise, I feel I am putting my love of the earth on ...

Wrongly convicting Kyle Unger for a murder he did not commit was the first miscarriage of justice. Not compensating him for the 14 years of his life he spent in jail was ...

Fall’s wetter, cooler days offer a unique and mystical experience for those who seek it. That is why there is no better time than fall to enjoy a bike ride in the ...