Almost 60 years ago, UVic officially put an end to its nomadic lifestyle. From Craigdarroch Castle to Victoria High to current-day Camosun College’s Lansdowne campus, 1967 was the year that UVic completed its final move to a sunny spot up the hill from sŋéqəʔ (Cadboro Bay). At its time of purchase, the new grounds consisted mainly of an old army camp and 141 acres of second-growth forest (previously logged by the Hudson’s Bay Company). In five years, UVic fashioned the essential buildings and swung open its doors to its (then) biggest ever enrollment in fall of 1967 — although, campus wasn’t without its oddities. Read the full article here.
Data centers are rapidly rolling out, and communities are mobilizing just as quickly. In May, the Canadian government announced a partnership with Telus, under which two Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers will come to Vancouver, and the existing Telus AI data centre facility in Kamloops will be expanded. The two data centers in Vancouver are planned to be located in Mount Pleasant at the former Hootsuite headquarters, and at 150 West Georgia Street, respectively. According to the CBC, Telus says the Mount Pleasant data center will come online later this year, while the second facility is planned to come online in 2029. Over recent months, the Vancouver community has pushed back against the data centers — and Torin LaRocque, an eighteen-year-old Vancouver resident, has been at the heart of it all. Read the full article here.
