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Victoria should do everything they can to keep Hermann’s Jazz Club and View Street Social alive
Victoria should do everything in its power to keep two iconic venues — Hermann’s Jazz Club and View Street Social — alive.
‘This city is full of poets’: Victoria celebrates National Poetry Month 2026
For National Poetry Month, celebrated every April in Canada, the Martlet spoke to Victoria’s Poet Laureate, Kyeren Regehr, to learn about some of the events featured at local bookstores and…
Victoria staple FernFest cancelled for 2026
“Over time FernFest has grown into a very large and very expensive undertaking,” the statement reads. “Even for a dedicated organization like ours, we simply can’t do everything.”
Give your thumb a rest and check out these alternatives to endless doomscrolling
If your thumb has been doing more miles than you have lately, you’re not alone. Scrolling has become the default way for many of us to fill every spare second…
Two Rats Loving takes on Battle of the Bands finals
Two Rats Loving is a Victoria-based, multi-genre band, comprising three students, a tattoo artist, and a UVic alum that started practicing in September. Now, they're in the Battle of the…
It’s not ‘just pixels’: X has become a weapon against women
X is a platform that gave abusers a tool to attack and control women and girls online. It’s a platform that allowed at least three million non-consensual sexualized images to…
Attacks on DEI are the harbinger of more hostility for our post-secondary sector
If new and diverse perspectives are considered a threat to Canadian post-secondary, that exposes how lacking in diversity our institutions already are.
In conversation with Leigh Jarrett, author of queer romance series ‘The Salish Sea Society’
The Vancouver Island-based queer author talks gay narratives, writing sex scenes, and Ilya Rozanov.Our Digital Print Issue
