by Anna Dodd | Feb 26, 2019 | Local, News
On the evening of Monday Feb. 25, the law firm Velletta & Co., acting on behalf of the Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group (VIPIRG), threatened legal action against the UVSS Board of Directors for the tort of libel, among other things. The news was...
by Anna Dodd | Feb 22, 2019 | Culture, Theatre
While Victoria’s Kaleidoscope Theatre calls itself a “theatre for young people,” adults and children alike will be mesmerized and haunted by its most recent production of the dystopian play, The Giver, based on the book by Lois Lowry. The play is set...
by Anna Dodd | Feb 21, 2019 | Campus, News
Dear readers, It’s UVSS elections time once more! In the lead up to voting (March 6 – 8), we’ve covered the four referenda questions that students will have the opportunity to vote on, as well as the two slates and single Director-at-Large who is...
by Anna Dodd | Feb 13, 2019 | Op-eds, Opinions
Victoria is not made for snow. In 2016, the city’s budget for snow removal was just $36 000. In comparison, the city of Kamloops, which shares a similar population size to that of Victoria, has a whopping $1.62 million allocated to snow removal. And that’s...
by Anna Dodd | Feb 12, 2019 | Campus, News
On Feb. 6, students met for the University of Victoria Students’ Society (UVSS) Semi-Annual General Meeting (SAGM) in the Vertigo lounge of the Student Union Building (SUB). To clarify (or confuse?), we are talking about the UVSS SAGM in the SUB. The meeting was...