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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.

Three songs about sex & love, courtesy of CFUV 101.9FM

In this month's Offbeat by CFUV column, a review of three songs about sex and love for the Martlet's sex and gender issue.

Canada is helping power ICE’s expansion. We should all be concerned

Canadian companies like Hootsuite, Roshel, and the U.S. subsidiary of GardaWorld have all faced backlash for doing business with the agency.

Sumo Tigers may not be ratified, but that won’t stop them from practicing

In Vancouver, Mansfield ran the Sumo Tigers club, which he brought with him to Victoria. Though Mansfield did not know enough students to meet the membership requirements for the UVSS…

B.C. Supreme Court hears challenge to faith-based hospital denying MAID and other essential care

A four-week case began on Jan. 19 in the B.C. Supreme Court, challenging the right of publicly-funded hospitals to practice faith-based care.

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