The UVSS started 2026 with a quick 30-minute Board of Directors meeting on Jan. 5, focusing on referenda questions and ...

It’s 1997, and Art Wilson has work to do. Art usually finds himself in the background, but the hereditary chiefs had recently called on the public to demonstrate why the land is theirs. Day and night, ...

John Vaillant is an American-Canadian journalist and author based out of Vancouver, B.C. He’s written for The New Yorker, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, and Outside Magazine, among others.

Last month, the thirty-first annual Victoria Film Festival (VFF) came to town. The festival showed more than 90 films across genres in the span of just over a week. Eleven standout films this year ...

In 1988, the little-known Carmanah Valley became the site of one of the first successful environmental protest campaigns against the clearcut logging of old-growth temperate rainforests in the history ...

Members of Indigenous Youth for Wet’suwet’en during their occupation of the B.C. Legislature. Photo by Mike Graeme While the hereditary chiefs were actively discussing a proposed deal with the ...

The history and political significance of bannock has changed over the years. Bannock has meant many things to many Indigenous people throughout history, from pre-contact to the fur trade to present ...

Adrenaline pumped through Lorilee’s body as she prepared for what she thought would be a meeting full of tension. It was October of 2015, right after Orange Shirt Day, and she was in a room in the ...

Bob Wright died in 2013, but he lives on through the Bob Wright Centre. A drab melange of beige and browns swaddled in brick from the waist down, the building houses UVic’s telescope and the school of ...

Since Canada’s first implementation of curbside recycling programs in the 1980s, Canadians have dutifully filled our blue bins believing that we’re doing a good thing for the planet. And we are, but ...

On a crisp, cold Saturday in late November, members of the Greater Victoria Green Team (GVGT) along with 28 volunteers set to work clearing Cunningham Woods, a 1-acre forested area inside Ring Road, ...

Hoping to gain research experience but not sure where to start? It can be challenging to find opportunities to engage in hands-on work in your field as an undergraduate student with no prior ...