What: Modern Myths and Icons: The Comic Art of Ken Steacy

Where: Winchester Galleries

When: now until March 28

Condensing  500 years of U.S. history in under an hour is no easy task, but award-winning Canadian writer, lecturer and thinker Ronald Wright tried to do just that by answering the question of his new book, What is America?

Doug Clayton and Ian Bush collaboratively write songs with a simple but effective philosophy in mind: they want their music to entertain a crowd. 

Before this month’s municipal election, 10 council candidates from five municipalities proposed a plan to cut politician’s stipends by five to 10 per cent to go toward homelessness and affordable housing, if elected. Only one was voted in.

Historically low voter turnout among youth in the last federal election is the product of unfair new voting laws and manipulative campaigning, not apathy, says Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

The Racoons struggle with names and identity.

On a whim this local band sometimes calls themselves Les Ratons Laveurs, which clumsily translates as “the Rat Bandits.” Despite the confusion, their names have been circulating through the Victoria music scene this year based on their strong presence during live shows.

Nineteen-year-old Simon Nattrass isn’t worried about not being taken seriously as a candidate for city councillor in the November 15 Victoria municipal election.

Kristen Woodruff, a Dalhousie graduate with no fixed address, is running for mayor of Victoria.

With the federal election campaign over, a sense of normalcy has returned to the lives of Canadians — no one is calling asking for their vote, Stephen Harper has returned the sweaters to his closet and our attention can finally return to the American election.