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Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher describes her childhood in Nazi Germany and urges the audience not to be bystanders

Inge Auerbacher’s German citizenship was stripped from her as an infant. At seven years old, she was deported to the Theresienstadt camp-ghetto in what was then Czechoslovakia. On Nov. 18,…

Waste Land: A climate anxiety haunted house

2556 Fifth Street is slated for demolition in December, and the remains will be more colourful than most. For the first time in Victoria, local artists have transformed a residential…

Fourth annual Christmas Craft Beer Show to feature over 100 festive flavours

The fourth annual Christmas Craft Beer Show is literally spreading holiday cheers this weekend at the Save on Foods Memorial Center. Breweries will bring along classic favourites, and mostly feature…

Victoria-based Blue Friday initiative offers eco-friendly alternative to Black Friday

“Blue is the New Black” according to a new initiative, Blue Friday, that aims to encourage Victoria residents to shop both sustainably and locally this Black Friday. Six local stores…

A journey into university-Indigenous relations

"Indigenous worldviews and ways of knowing, doing, and being are significant and important contextual and methodological challenges to this Eurocentric worldview that have an influence far beyond the classroom."

Liberals plan to ban conversion therapy nationwide after months of provincial confusion

Canada’s new Liberal government has promised to fight conversion therapy on the Federal level, after refusing to do so in the face of a nation-wide petition in March. No provincial…

UVic professor, students feeling impact of ongoing Hong Kong protests

As protests in Hong Kong continue, tensions have grown in Victoria and Vancouver between pro-democracy supporters and pro-China supporters. Peaceful demonstrations have quickly turned aggressive between these two groups, causing…

Global Brigades club sending students to Honduras

While other students kick back, relax, and maybe even study over reading break, 50 students will go on one of a medical, business, or engineering brigade to work on sustainability…

Silver screen and stage satire meet with a bang in The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps — Patrick Barlow’s tongue-in-cheek adaptation of John Buchan’s 1915 novel and Hitchcock’s 1935 thriller of the same name — is a flight of farce for four versatile…