by Myles Sauer | Mar 17, 2016 | Campus, News
“It gives me great pride and honour to be able to serve indigenous students, because they’re way more powerful than you’d imagine . . . They can stare down the barrel of a gun and still have hope.” So says Blake Desjarlais, Native Students Union (NSU) Firekeeper and...
by Myles Sauer | Mar 17, 2016 | Opinions
I am a settler on unceded and unsurrendered Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territory. I moved here from Alberta in 2011, but I didn’t think much of my own status as a non-indigenous person before that, save for a couple classes in post-colonial literature I took as part of my...
by Myles Sauer | Mar 16, 2016 | News, Provincial
Premier Christy Clark has pledged her support for the Post-Secondary Sexual Violence Policies Act tabled last week by Andrew Weaver, MLA Oak Bay-Gordon Head, it was announced this afternoon. Premier @christyclarkbc pledges to work with @AJWVictoriaBC on Post-Secondary...
by Myles Sauer | Mar 16, 2016 | Campus, News
The lack of a sexual assault policy on B.C. campuses has become a public issue in recent weeks, and it’s only going to get bigger if a UVic activist has anything to say about it. On Tuesday, March 9 — International Women’s Day — trans activist and UVSS...
by Myles Sauer | Mar 12, 2016 | Campus, News
New evidence has surfaced in the Martlet’s investigation of an alleged Facebook conversation between an anonymous UVic student and UVSS Chairperson Brontë Renwick-Shields suggesting that someone impersonated the Chairperson in a conversation alleged to have...