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FOI bill creates barriers for student journalists

December 1, 2021December 2, 2021
Martlet Staff
Government accountability, freedom to information, and freedom of the press are just some of the hallmarks of a healthy and functional democracy. B.C.’s now-passed Bill 22 hampers these freedoms and

Goodbye, and thank you

December 1, 2021December 2, 2021
Kate Korte
The thought of leaving the Martlet always seemed like a distant possibility. I had stored a drafted goodbye letter in the back of my brain's filing cabinet, collecting dust over

NFTs are an embarrassment to the art world

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021
Sie Douglas-Fish
Logging into websites like Twitter, I am greeted with tweet after tweet of .jpg images. It seems every day is accompanied by the repetition of the same weird monkey and

A show or real reconciliation

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021
Boston Laferté
In June 2021, in response to the uncovering of 215 unmarked graves at Kamloops residential school. Pope Francis offered a thread of tweets. Now, he has agreed to come to

Letter to the Editor: Beyond Symbolic Gestures

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021
Letters
The Martlet accepts Letters to the Editor! Letters must be 200 words or less and cannot contain any images, videos, or links. They must be written by an individual (not...

Introducing our climate issue: why we’re committed to good climate coverage

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021
Martlet Staff
To act as an agent of constructive social change. That is one of the commitments in our mission statement that the Martlet has made to the university and local communities

Indigenous resistance is vital to climate action

November 3, 2021December 2, 2021
Boston Laferté
In the last few years, climate change movements have grown increasingly popular, and many people are being exposed to these ideas through social media. Figures like Greta Thunberg and David

Letter to the Editor: Open Letter to the UVSS

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021
Letters
The Martlet accepts Letters to the Editor! Letters must be 200 words or less and cannot contain any images, videos, or links. They must be written by an individual (not...

Facebook outage shows need for infrastructure regulation

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021
Sarah Suleman
On Monday, Oct. 4, billions of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users from every corner of the world reached for their phones — only to find that they could not access

Last-minute switches to online courses hurt students

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021
Raheem Uz Zaman
This fall semester, UVic marked the return to in-person classes after a year-long hiatus due to COVID-19. In their early announcements about the return to campus, UVic indicated that 100
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