NEWS
Virtual Suicide
by Erin Ball
Virtual suicide,
the act of erasing the online
profile that an Internet user has
created, is becoming more common—
thanks in part to one site
that has raised facebook’s ire
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Food Not Bombs
by Manda Gryba
Food Not Bombs is a radical ideology,
and one that members of the
Nanaimo community are striving to
share. The name says it all—if governments
and corporations around
the world
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Ocean Research Funds for Universities
by Chelsea Howard
New federal
funding has been released to aid
oceans-based research at universities
around Canada. The funding
will provide opportunities for Canadian
students to conduct more
comprehensive studies in terms of
developing tools to better manage
the world’s oceans
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International Tourism Boom For Tofino
by Sherry Wota
In Feb., the 2010 Olympic Winter
Games brought the world to
Vancouver. While Tofino did not
experience a large influx of international
visitors, the after-effects of
promoting the small surfing village
on the West Coast of Vancouver
Island may be positive in the long
run
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"Resistance Is Fertile"
by Liam Robichaud
UVic students gathered outside
their campus library late
last month to participate in a
teach-out for sustainable food
production
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First Cannabis Convention in Nanaimo
by Liam Robichaud
On Sunday, Mar. 28 the VIU
Hempology 101 club held its first
annual Cannabis Convention. A
series of well versed guest speakers
addressed subjects ranging
from use of marijuana medicinally
and spiritually to methods
of reformation of marijuana
laws
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Harambee From Kenya
by Sherry Wota
Hah-rahm-beh: In Swahili, this
means all pull together. Around
thirty members of VIU’s World
University Service of Canada
(WUSC) will be pulling together on
Sat. Apr. 24 to raise enough money
to support an African refugee
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