by Emily Thiessen | Aug 14, 2014 | Culture, Visual Arts
For years the channel that starts at Bastion Square, runs through Helmcken Alley, and opens onto Fort Street has been a battleground between graffiti writers and paint rollers. Last year, the City of Victoria sent Open Space a ticket for failing to remove the...
by Emily Thiessen | Jul 10, 2014 | Features, Stories
My mother grew up on an island known for jungles, giant flowers, and orangutans. After getting a degree in ecology, she worked in fisheries research on the second largest river in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, on Borneo. For seven years she and her crew travelled up...
by Emily Thiessen | May 26, 2014 | Local, News
The Cedar Hill Rec Centre café initially seems like an unlikely place for an exhibit about indigenous resistance. Photos of prisons, protests, and funerals hang off three walls like an encyclopedia of oppression, lining the route between coffee and squash lessons....
by Emily Thiessen | Oct 3, 2013 | Campus, News
The trail on the journey between the MacLaurin building end of the quad and the Engineering building is as eccentric as routes between classes go. It seems like a trek through the wilderness, except it’s less than 100 metres long. Like most places on the UVic campus,...
by Emily Thiessen | Sep 5, 2013 | Humour
Well, class has just begun, you’ve settled into residence and you’re thinking that this is how your first year will play out. You’re wrong. You’ve only had a taste, but no fear! I’ve compiled a checklist of sorts so you can see if you’ve had the full first-year...