by Martlet Staff | Oct 20, 2016 | Editorials, Opinions
“You’ll have to excuse me,” said Jamie Cassels with a smirk at his latest President’s Campus Update on Oct. 5, “but I’m going to use some ‘Edge’ language here.” The audience giggled. The “Edge” that Cassels was referring to was UVic Edge, a mix of an advertising...
by Martlet Staff | Oct 6, 2016 | Editorials, Opinions
Ah, to go back to the simpler days of last year’s federal election. Justin Trudeau, having campaigned on the promise of rebuilding a nation-to-nation relationship with Indigenous peoples and “real change” for Canadians, was elected Prime Minister, with his Liberal...
by Martlet Staff | Sep 22, 2016 | Editorials, Opinions
The story of Jianping Pan, the Computer Science professor relieved of his obligation to teach a course after claiming he was unqualified to do so, has inspired no shortage of discussion in the weeks since that fateful day on Sept. 9. Since its publication on Sept. 12,...
by Martlet Staff | Aug 4, 2016 | Editorials, Opinions
Things have been hostile in the SUB as of late. This summer has been marked by a battle for the Third Space, as a small but vocal contingent of radical feminists (known by some as trans-exclusive radical feminists, or TERFs) have been airing their opposition to the...
by Martlet Staff | Jul 7, 2016 | Editorials, Opinions
On June 23, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in the Brexit referendum, a landmark decision that sent shockwaves throughout the world, and has left an entire nation in the midst of an identity crisis. Many Leave voters based their decision on the...