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Orange Shirt Day in Victoria: Five years later

Every September 30, the University of Victoria and the Greater Victoria community hold events and wear orange shirts as part of an ongoing process of truth and reconciliation between Indigenous…

Recap of the Sep 23 UVSS Board of Directors meeting

The UVSS Board of Directors met for just over two hours earlier this week to finalize the agenda for their Annual General Meeting (AGM), introduce a new board member, and…

Comedy, laughter used to fundraise for Mauna Kea

Earlier this month, one UVic group used comedy to help protesters thousands of kilometres away. The Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-Led Engagement hosted a comedy night on Sep. 12,…

“My heart aches:” UVic community gathers to grieve lives lost in Friday bus crash

University staff and students gathered on Sep. 17 to grieve and support one another after a bus crash killed two first year students in the third incident on road to…

Two UVic students dead in weekend bus crash

Two UVic students were killed, and three more were seriously injured, when a bus went down an embankment over the weekend between Bamfield and Port Alberni.

Sexualized Violence Awareness Week brings much-needed discussions to campus

In the era of Me Too, conversations around consent and sexual health are still relatively new to university campuses. UVic's Sexualized Violence Awareness Week hopes to start those conversations through…

The four biggest news stories you might have missed this summer

Although many students were away from campus this summer — visiting home, on co-op, or traveling to exotic places — that didn’t keep UVic and Victoria from announcing several major…

VIPIRG terminates lease with UVSS, moves to Fifth Street office

On August 26, VIPIRG announced that they terminated their lease agreement with the University of Victoria Student Society (UVSS) due to what they felt was an increasingly unsustainable partnership. The…

Grad House financial struggle, apology discussed at Graduate Representative Council meeting

On August 13, the Graduate Representative Council (GRC) met to discuss the creation of a plan to tackle the Grad House restaurant’s ongoing financial struggle and issue an apology to…