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By Krista Meckelborg
Our world has undoubtedly become a digital world. If you look around, you will likely spot at least a few people on their phones or laptops. You might be reading this in print, but you likely find most of your news online.
With the impact of the digital revolution all around us, it’s becoming both easier and harder to deal with relationships. Communication is so easy; to send someone a message from across the world only takes a few seconds. At the same time, online communication can be impersonal and easily misinterpreted. This ...
Above: Mal de Mer, a film, by Marina Roy and Graham Meisner. ???? Courtesy of Nanaimo Art Gallery
By Managing Editor Molly Barrieau
The first exhibit of 2017 and last in a series of three for the Nanaimo Art Gallery (NAG) opens this week with a reception in the recently renovated space, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the gallery.
Landfall and Departure follows Nanaimo’s longstanding history and connection to the harbour located merely metres from the doors on Commercial St. Featuring artwork, photos, recordings and archival material from the Nanaimo Archives, the NAG ...
By contributor Zyre Hoskins
Why buy pad thai at a restaurant when you can make it at home? This student-budget friendly meal is perfect for those nights in, when all you want to do is watch Netflix, drink beer, and curl up with a bowl of warm comfort food. This recipe serves four hungry people, or 5-6 regular people. With a prep time of only 20 minutes, and cook time of half an hour, you’ll be pressing play in no time.
Average cost: about $30-40 depending on deals. $50 if you don’t already have some stuff lying around.
Ingredients:
Pad Thai
1 package rice noodles
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By Arts Editor Cheryl Folland
Over the next few months, The Nav will be showcasing local venues that provide a platform for artists looking to break into the music and spoken word scene. These venues focus on local comedians, musicians and poets by providing them with a once a week slot to get their work out to the public. This week, we’ll be focusing on The Vault Cafe—one of Nanaimo’s only all ages venues.
If you’ve never had the pleasure of visiting The Vault Cafe, located at 499 Wallace Street in Nanaimo’s downtown core, I strongly recommend it. Art by local paintings adorns the ...
By Louis Patterson
When I was in community college, commuting for an hour each day, I was lucky enough to come across the informative, engaging, and, thank the Forces That Be, free medium of entertainment known as the podcast. I would spend my drives listening to stories, comedians, lectures, and whatever else took my fancy, while cruising up and down the Island. In this dreary time of the semester, when the buzz of returning to school slowly fades into due dates and monotony, I present you with one of these treasured podcasts, one of which I wait for in anticipation every second ...
Above: "Just one of many strategies to show support for reinstating ABE funding is signing the Don’t Close the Door campaign postcard. These can be found at the VIUSU in Bldg. 193.” ???? Catherine Charlebois
By Production Manager Catherine Charlebois
Representatives from the Vancouver Island University Students’ Union (VIUSU) are preparing to petition the British Columbia government to bring back funding for the Adult Basic Education (ABE) program, which enables adults to finish or upgrade their secondary education.
Avery Bonner, the VIUSU’s Director of External Relations, and ...
By News Editor Aislinn Cottell
As many Nanaimoites will agree, the sea is an integral and deeply valued part of Vancouver Island life. And on July 1, Canada’s 150th birthday, residents and visitors will be given a new venue with which to explore its unique ecosystem and history.
The Trans Canada Trail (TCT) and BC Marine Trails Network Association (BCMTNA) have collaborated to come up with plans for a new blueway–a saltwater travel route designed for small paddlecraft and beachable boats–which will connect The Great Trail (previously the Trans Canada Trail) from Horseshoe Bay on ...
By News Editor Aislinn Cottell
Based in the South of England, the Bohunt Education Trust (BET) is an academy school sponsor organization, well known for it’s innovative and ground-breaking educational practices. Their first school was established in Liphook in 1978, but they currently run five secondary schools across England, and are only growing. Teachers at these schools employ a challenge and project-based curricular approach, with the aims of preparing students to meet multi-faceted problems in the real world, not just exams.
BET has been ambitious in integrating technology ...
By Associate Editor Natalie Gates
Welcome back, VIU. Congratulations on surviving 2016, and welcome to 2017—a year with one too many syllables for my liking, but I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.
What is it about the flip of that calendar page to January first, and the stroke of midnight on your December 31 night out, that leaves you with a tear in your eye, a smirk on your face, a kiss on your lips, butterflies in your stomach, or a drink down the hatch? While we are undoubtedly aware that the dramatic ending and beginning that collide in that moment are purely ...
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By Associate Editor Natalie Gates
As a kid, I had a mysterious aunt and uncle. I have spotty but vivid memories of a family vacation to Costa Rica with them when I was five, where I sat high up on my uncle James’ shoulders as we walked the beach to view leatherback sea turtles. He was six feet tall, but might as well have been twelve—I could almost catch the sun. I remembered my aunt Elizabeth showing my grandparents how to do the tree pose for a group photo on the beach with a toothy grin. Near the end of the trip, they got me a laminated, one-page, ...
By contributor Veronique Rioux
Veronique Rioux is a VIU Fitness Instructor who teaches classes for Campus Rec.
1. Only doing cardiovascular exercises
Most people who want to get rid of belly fat will do cardiovascular exercises, like using the treadmill, bike, or the elliptical. Doing cardio is great to get started, but it should not be the only thing you do. I once heard someone say: “A man should train like a woman; men should do cardiovascular exercises because they have more belly fat and die more often from cardiovascular disease. And women should train like men and do ...
By Spenser Smith and Sarah Packwood
Terrifying fact: Grade 12 students starting their semester this September will be born in the year 2000. List of things I was doing in the early 2000s: waiting for my crush to log on to MSN, reading Deltora Quest, and listening to a steady stream of emo music. As a teenager, I formed a deep connection to the genre. The confessional, over-the-top angst spoke to my adolescence, and while I had zero experience with the overdramatic relationships that the bands sang about, I fantasized I did. I enlisted my partner and resident emo expert, Sarah, to ...
By Managing Editor Molly Barrieau
Released last week, in anticipation of next month’s Vancouver Island Short Film Festival (VISFF), are the 16 films carefully chosen from the record-breaking 112 entries. With films coming from across the globe, over 14 countries, the team had the daunting task to narrow it down to share the short films with an eager Nanaimo audience in February.
“This reflects the growing popularity and reputation of the festival,” says Karla Duarte, Director of VISFF. “The VISFF is hosted in Nanaimo and is open to anyone around the world who can submit films in ...
By contributor Spencer Sheehan-Kalina
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By contributor Chantelle Spicer
Every Canadian city, no matter how small, has parks. Parks are where we find peace, quiet, recreation, play, reflection. These bits of land, saved from encroaching development, can appear as windows into how the city and residents see themselves.
Take Bowen Park for example—a jewel of a park—which harbours old-growth Cedar and Douglas Fir, along with a productive salmon run right in the heart of Nanaimo. The neighbourhoods which surround the many parks of Nanaimo have higher taxes ...
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By columnist Diana Pearson
The Sugar N’ Spice Holiday Burlesque and Drag show was held December 16, 2016, at the Harbour City Theatre on Victoria Rd. in Nanaimo.
It was a charming evening, full of fun, inclusive, sexy, and expressive performances. Debut performances by Justina Winters and Lana Del Raymond, performances by Clara Fox, Betty Krueger, SirReal, Manna Quinn, Adam Lambourghini, Synder Starr, and—all the way from Alberta—award-winning drag superstar, TIARA Manila.
The host for the evening, Gareth Boyce, was warm and charismatic, and kept the ...
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By Sports and Lifestyle Editor Cole Schisler
On Friday, January 6, the VIU Mariners hosted the Quest Kermodes for the PACWEST Basketball game of the week. The Mariners came back to win the match in a stunning 85-71 finish over the Kermodes.
“A lot our guys have been sick this week, so we haven’t had a full practice roster,” Mariners Head Coach Matt Kuzminski said. “This wasn’t a game where we had the energy that we needed, or the execution, but I give our guys a lot of ...
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By Ahron Balatii
It’s 11:30 am and we’re still in bed. We’re both exhausted. The room smells like sweat and cigarettes. I pull Rose close and nearly drift back to sleep. The scene is innocent enough; you’d probably have no idea that she fucks married men for money.
I then realize we completely forgot to do the interview, the sole reason we saw each other the night before.
Damn it.
I met Rose late last September, a couple days after my twentieth birthday. I had just completely ruined a nearly year-long relationship, so I was doing what any young and ...
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You are a woman, exploring a foreign, contained setting, putting the pieces together to find out why the people who should be there aren’t. For those who’ve played Fullbright’s Gone Home, this will sound familiar. But this is not Gone Home, it’s Fullbright’s space-based sophomore effort, Tacoma.
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Tacoma is set in the year 2088 on the titular Lunar Transfer Station, and is a stark shift from the ...
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By News Editor Aislinn Cottell
Dr. Ralph Nilson has been reappointed for his third term in office at VIU. In 2015, the VIU Board of Governors created a committee consisting of governors, the chancellor, faculty, staff, and students, which reviewed Nilson’s previous terms over the winter between November 2015 and March 2016 and reported their recommendation to the Board.
“The predominant theme that came out of ...
Above: Clockwise from top left: Buffy Sainte-Marie, singer/songwriter and VIU honorary doctorate; Diane La eur, VIU’s new Deputy Minister University Champion and Associate Deputy Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada; Dr. Ralph Nilson, VIU’s President and Vice-Chancellor; and Louise Mandell, VIU’s Chancellor. ???? VIU Communications
By contributor Glenn Drexhage
Vancouver Island University (VIU) has a new champion.
Diane Lafleur, Associate Deputy Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), has been named VIU’s Deputy Ministwer University Champion. ...
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By contributor Chantelle Spicer
Over the break, I took my time working through the 2015 book milk and honey, which is a collection of poetry, prose and illustration by the talented 24 year old Canadian. If you do not know the name Rupi Kaur, I am willing to bet that you probably know her work. Many of her poems from the book milk and honey have gone viral. She has also received Instagram fame for both the poems and her personal and poignant photographs that deal with the taboo of menstruation. She is an absolute force in the world of contemporary feminism, ...
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By Sports and Lifestyle Editor Cole Schisler
In their first league game since winning two of their three winter tournament matches, the Mariners showed poise in their 70-48 victory over the visiting Quest Kermodes.
“We played strong, we played together, we had good ball movement, and we executed well in many ways,” said Mariners’ forward Sienna Pollard, who scored 21 points in Friday’s match.
The Mariners out-scored the Kermodes in every quarter, and were dominant from the get go. ...
