EDITORIAL | No pipeline against Indigenous consent is a good pipeline January 22, 2020February 6, 2020 Martlet Staff Somehow, the B.C. government has deemed that the Coastal GasLink pipeline is a worth supporting, while the TransMountain pipeline expansion should be condemned. Both pipelines did not get the consent
LETTER | To the UVic Board of Governors on denying support for the Unist’ot’en April 9, 2019April 9, 2019 Letters As an institution supposedly committed to supporting the process of reconciliation, UVic must first reconcile its own complicity in silencing the voices of Indigenous matriarchs, and reconsider the decision to
Letter from the editor: We’ve listened to your feedback, love the Ostrich April 1, 2019April 1, 2019 Anna Dodd We know, we know. The Martlet is too socialist. We're too judgmental. We're too critical. We're too anti-UVic. Anti-oil and pipelines. Anti-UVSS. What are you funding us for, anyways? And
Native Students Union call on UVic to take stance in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en First Nation January 9, 2019January 10, 2019 Anna Dodd NSU among hundreds in demonstration at B.C. Legislature Hundreds gathered on Tuesday, Jan. 8 in front of the British Columbia Parliament buildings to protest RCMP officers forcing members of the Wet’suwet’en...
Protect What You Love October 10, 2018 Sarah Suleman Southern Resident Killer Whale town hall speaks to the future of the Salish Sea “You saved my home,” said Joan Morris, a Lkwungen Elder. The gravity of these four words still...
Here’s what you missed at UVic this summer September 6, 2018 Cormac O’Brien But I’m sure the cottage at the lake was nice Pipeline protests If you missed this story, I envy how secluded your summer must have been. In what became international news, the...
Federal court lands blow against construction of Trans Mountain pipeline August 30, 2018 Anna Dodd Federal Court of Appeal says First Nations were not adequately consulted on the project and that marine traffic was not taken into account The Federal Court of Appeal ruled today that...
Kinder Morgan demonstration transforms from 20-protester phone bank to 200-person rally June 5, 2018June 5, 2018 Josh Kozelj Protest staged days after hundreds of anti-pipeline demonstrators march downtown About 200 protesters wearing red clothes gathered outside the Atrium in downtown Victoria to rally against the federal government's recent decision...
Parking pipe dreams November 27, 2014November 30, 2014 Martlet It is reprehensible to leave a hostile climate to future generations by quietly accepting a difficult but necessary transition from fossil fuels as simply impossible.
A new chapter for Indigenous rights July 10, 2014July 9, 2014 Martlet Staff UVic meetings often begin with an acknowledgment of the unceded territories, a few sentences reminding participants of the history of campus land: that it, like most land in this province,...
