} December 12, 2024
Tuition fees are not desirable, beneficial, or inevitable
Another year, another set of students gearing up to take on the real world. And while students may be breathing a sigh of relief now that exams are over, there’s a bigger challenge facing this generation of graduates: student debt. The cost of a university degree in...The Martlet Podcast—Episode 3
Who the hell cares what critics have to say? Well, Carl Wilson, music critic for Slate and Billboard and UVic Writing’s 2016 Southam Lecturer, might. We caught up with Wilson and talked about the role of criticism in today’s democratized internet culture....Ban the grizzly trophy hunt
The spring hunt for grizzly bears is now in full swing across B.C. This season alone, hundreds of hunters will descend into the Great Bear Rainforest to seek out a trophy. But in an age when we are anxious to leave the environment thriving for our children and...Jumbo Wild: filmmakers take on icy controversy
In July 2013, sound artist and composer Paul Walde, accompanied by a crew of about 100 people, trekked to the Farnham Glacier in the Kootenays to perform a four-movement orchestral requiem for a unique audience: the landscape itself. On Dec. 11, Sweetgrass Productions...Our Digital Print Issue
