We asked community leaders and educators about Canada’s sesquicentennial anniversary, to reflect on this country’s present, past, and future. A.H. | General Coordinator of WUSC UVic The Martlet: What does it mean to you to be a Canadian, and what is a Canadian identity? It’s funny, because Canada is such a melting pot of people…. Read more »
Posts Categorized: Features
Diversity in Academia
Grace Wong Sneddon, the adviser to the provost on equity and diversity, smiles as she points up to the framed certificates that hang on the wall of her office. “I hear people go, ‘what are you worried about? Stop worrying so much — you’ve got six of those things,’” Wong Sneddon says. She’s pointing at diversity… Read more »
Minority report: How slim margins left B.C.’s electoral future in the balance
For the first time since 1953, B.C. will have a minority government. As of midnight, May 9, the B.C. Liberal Party were projected to win 43 seats, with the B.C. NDP and B.C. Green Party following with 41 and 3, respectively. The results are perhaps unsurprising, coming after an electoral campaign where polls put the… Read more »
The waiting game: Students struggle with lack of access to UVic Mental Health Services
“Last term I was having a rough time. My social network collapsed, my best friend moved away, and I went into a serious depression, and then an anxiety disorder emerged.” So says a UVic student, speaking anonymously with the Martlet on the issue of accessibility and UVic Counselling Services. “When I went to Counselling Services,… Read more »
What we talk about when we talk about gender
Navigating the spectrum of the transgender and non-binary experience March 31 marked the international Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), a day meant to celebrate and empower the trans community. This year’s theme was #TransResistance: a reaction to global transphobia in the current political world. The passing of TDOV made me question, as a cisgender woman,… Read more »
The Malahat Review presents the 2017 WordsThaw Prize
In collaboration with The Malahat Review, the Martlet is pleased to present the winners of the annual WordsThaw Prize. The WordsThaw Prize is a writing contest for beginning writers living in Victoria, and run by The Malahat Review, a literary magazine published by the University of Victoria (www.malahatreview.ca). The Martlet and the Malahat congratulate the first-place… Read more »
B.C. Transit: The good, the bad, and the Guthrie
One-on-one with the general manager of Victoria Regional Transit Operations Whether it’s arriving late to class or getting left behind in the rain, many University of Victoria students who live off campus are exasperated with the tardiness and unreliability of B.C. Transit buses during busy hours. “You have to plan an hour in advance for… Read more »
UnCovered: A Story of Student Newspapers, Advocacy Journalism, and Genitalia
CONTENT WARNING: This story features a graphic image of genitalia. The clouds hung low in the air at the University of Victoria on the morning of Feb. 13, 1992. It had been a bleak month, with temperatures rarely venturing above two or three degrees Celsius, and although weather data from back then is hard to… Read more »
The opioid gamble: How fentanyl became B.C.’s leading health crisis
It’s up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, and contributed to 60 per cent of illicit drug deaths in B.C. last year. But why is fentanyl really dangerous? In the second season of A&E’s Intervention Canada, we met Aimee Parry, a 26-year-old blue-eyed bookworm from Ottawa, Ont. As per the show’s premise, Parry agrees to be… Read more »
FEATURE: Long-distance learning
Make 2017 the year to say ‘yes!’ to studying abroad For those of us who are always daydreaming about exploring somewhere new, a semester abroad is a no-brainer: experiencing new cultures, trying new foods, meeting new people, and perhaps most importantly, getting to travel while earning university credits? What’s not to love? UVic boasts of… Read more »
