by Hugo Wong | Jan 14, 2013 | News
UVic will see its seventh president in office this summer: long-time law professor Jamie Cassels. Cassels begins his five-year term on July 1, 2013, when he succeeds the current president, David Turpin, who is stepping down after 13 years at the post. “The very first...
by Hugo Wong | Dec 13, 2012 | News
Last month, UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) Director-at-Large Gabrielle Sutherland put forth a motion that would have done away with the UVSS board of directors (BoD) executive committee. The executive committee is a closed committee made up of the chairperson and the...
by Hugo Wong | Dec 13, 2012 | Business | Tech
Unique in the world of financial planning, the Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA) is one of many tools that help Canadians save for their financial goals. The federal government introduced the TFSA in 2009. It is, however, misnamed. It should be called a Tax Free...
by Hugo Wong | Dec 13, 2012 | Business | Tech
After placing third in the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge (CSDC) on Sept. 29, UVic’s Experimental Cosmic Ray and Diamagnetic Scientific Satellite (ECOSat) team is now focused on the second iteration of the CSDC, in which the winning nanosatellite will be launched...
by Hugo Wong | Dec 13, 2012 | Opinions
As we approach the holiday season, I usually start thinking about the Dickensian themes of love, family and good will towards my fellow man. And then I remember that I know a lot of people who found their families not by being born into them, but by collecting them...