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Voter turnout 2.97 per cent for UVic Senate student elections

On Monday, April 8, the Office of the University Secretary released the election results from the race for student senators on the University of Victoria website. Of the 21 042…

LETTER | To the UVic Board of Governors on denying support for the Unist’ot’en

As an institution supposedly committed to supporting the process of reconciliation, UVic must first reconcile its own complicity in silencing the voices of Indigenous matriarchs, and reconsider the decision to…

The trials and tribulations of returning to my small hometown for the summer

Despite its flaws, Nanaimo isn’t all bad. We have nice beaches once you clear the empty cans of Lucky Lager. We have some semblance of a nightlife if you can…

UVic’s Japanese Culture Club hosts first Japanese Equinox Festival

From the drums of the Uminari Taiko group that made the Michele Pujol room rumble to the Furusato Dancers twirling with branches of flowering cherry blossoms, the Japanese Equinox Festival,…

The Hippocrates tree

The University of Victoria campus is full of beautiful plants — a sight to behold in every season. Hippocrates, an ancient physician, supposedly taught lectures under a big Oriental Plane…

A Facebook community is trading for positive change

In an online society littered with anonymous hate and social media trolls, Zoltan Szoges was inspired to create the group after posting a photo of himself looking to trade a…

Review: ‘Good Morning, Viet Mom!’

In Good Morning, Viet Mom!, Franco Nguyen tells a story of growing up as the son of Vietnamese immigrant parents in a moving and hilarious show with themes of family,…

Mike Delamont confronts difficult childhood in ‘Mama’s Boy’

On Mar. 8, Mama’s Boy opened the 10th annual Spark Festival at the Belfry Theatre. Mike Delamont used every part of his towering six-foot-six frame to deliver a moving, intimate…

Coordinated global youth strike sees movement of a million strong

Over one million young people from some 1 600 communities across the world decided to ditch school on Friday, Mar. 15 to tell adults to quit ditching the future when…

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