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Child care consultations underway, but time running short for parents

Child care consultations underway, but time running short for parents

by Cormac O’Brien | Jan 23, 2017 | Campus, News

A parent knows how important time is. It’s why LeAnne Golinsky is early to my interview with her. It’s only 9 a.m., but Golinsky has already dropped off her two kids and bought a coffee, ready now to speak with wide-eyed passion about an issue close to home — saving...

Board of Directors rings in semester with policy deadlock, new referendum

by Cormac O’Brien | Jan 13, 2017 | Campus, News

After contracting a cold over the holiday period, I arrived at 2017’s first UVSS meeting with bronchitis. Unfortunately, that may have been the least painful experience of the four-hour marathon student politics session. The board entertained a range of ideas, from...
Why must the women’s basketball team play warm-up for the men?

Why must the women’s basketball team play warm-up for the men?

by Cormac O’Brien | Jan 12, 2017 | Op-eds, Opinions

If you ask me, the best part of a women’s basketball game at UVic is when it finishes. But my reasoning for that over-simplistic and intentionally facetious statement is most likely different than what you’d expect: I love the end of the women’s UVic basketball games...
Child care consultations underway, but time running short for parents

Demonstrators give pipeline expansions the thumbs down

by Cormac O’Brien | Dec 14, 2016 | Local, News

More than 1000 people braved the cold of downtown Victoria on Thursday, Dec. 1, to stand in solidarity with Standing Rock and voice their opposition to the federal gov- ernment’s approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project. Those in favour of...

Board of Directors backpedal on VIPIRG referendum

by Cormac O’Brien | Dec 6, 2016 | Campus, News

The UVSS Board of Directors has quickly backtracked on a motion put forward at last night’s board meeting that would have seen students vote on funding currently allocated to the Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group (VIPIRG). The referendum would have...
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