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A Tweetcap of the December 2 UVSS meeting

While many students were curled up in the library to study for their finals, the UVSS Board of Directors met in Vertigo to pass a handful of motions that included…

Divest UVic blocks university executives and administrative staff from accessing the Michael Williams Building

“We feel that the administrators who work in this building are a threat to the security of our future,” said Juliet Watts, Divest BC Chair. “So, we’re not allowing them…

Amendment to FIPPA could provide students with better learning technology

The amendment allows for information to now be able to leave Canada for temporary data processing on the condition that no intentional access be granted to an individual. Before this…

Provincial government unveils new rules on vaping

While UVic students returned to campus from reading break earlier this month, the government of British Columbia announced plans to implement the toughest rules on vaping in the country in…

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,…

Coast Capital Savings announces one million dollar investment to UVic’s Innovation Centre

In front of students, faculty, and community members, Tracy Arnish, Chief Member Experience Officer of Coast Capital Savings, announced an extended partnership and one million dollar investment into the Innovation…

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…

New dinosaur species found in B.C.

A new dinosaur species found nowhere else in the world has been discovered along the Sustut River in British Columbia.

Students barred from entering Michael Williams Building, labelled a “security threat” after Board of Governors meeting and protest

Shortly after a student rally for UVic’s divestment from fossil fuels at the Nov. 26 Board of Governors meeting, seven students walked to the Michael Williams Building to deliver letters…