by Martlet Staff | Jan 12, 2017 | Editorials, Opinions
With a new year comes new oppor- tunities for reflection, and we’re not excluded from that. So what does the Martlet want to see more of this year? First, let’s see more engagement in student politics. While we try our best to inform students what’s going on with...
by Martlet Staff | Dec 15, 2016 | Editorials, Opinions
We want to begin this editorial with a pleasant reminder of one of Justin Trudeau’s platform promises last election: that his government would revise the National Energy Board’s (NEB) pipeline approval process before any more pipelines were built. Now let’s recap what...
by Martlet Staff | Dec 1, 2016 | Editorials, Opinions
The Pope endorsed Donald Trump. An FBI agent investigating Hillary Clinton’s private email server was discovered dead in an apparent murder-suicide. And busloads of professional protesters were dropped off mere blocks away from an anti-Trump protest site in Austin,...
by Martlet Staff | Nov 3, 2016 | Editorials, Opinions
At time of writing, the U.S. presidential election is a mere week away. After what has felt like eons, America will finally decide between Hillary Clinton, the potential first ever woman to lead the United States, and Donald Trump, the potential first ever human...
by Martlet Staff | Oct 20, 2016 | Editorials, Opinions
“You’ll have to excuse me,” said Jamie Cassels with a smirk at his latest President’s Campus Update on Oct. 5, “but I’m going to use some ‘Edge’ language here.” The audience giggled. The “Edge” that Cassels was referring to was UVic Edge, a mix of an advertising...