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Store shelves might be missing SweetHearts candies this year
Conversation candy hearts fall out of the picture for Valentine’s Day 2019 You’re going to have to come up with your own romantic phrases this year, as NECCO, the biggest and original producer of conversation candy SweetHearts, filed for bankruptcy in April 2018. The...
Divest UVic: It’s time to break up with fossil fuels
After a year of silence, Divest UVic is back. We checked in with what they have planned for the coming year, the history of divestment at UVic, and the strategic coordination by Canadian universities to manage divestment campaigns. In 1896, Swedish scientist Svante...
All Vans on deck: Skater fashion from the ’90s to 2019
In its early days, skateboarding was the sport of outcasts. If skaters weren’t ripping up the empty pool in your backyard, they were probably already in the backseat of a cop car. Now, though, it’s not so uncommon to see anyone from a 12-year-old girl to a...
10-day pledge to eat only dumpster food raises money for Inuit communities
Today — Monday, Jan. 14 — marks day seven of the UVic students’ challenge As garbage bins fill with food waste in urban centres across the country, the stomachs of people living in northern Canada are left empty. For UVic environmental studies students Elora...Our Digital Print Issue
