Keeping opioid users alive
I am sick of my friends dying from preventable opioid overdoses. Opioid use disorder is a medical condition and should be treated as such. We don’t...
Editorials
Mac Miller, human being
On September 7, rapper and producer Mac Miller (whose real name was Malcolm McCormick) died of a suspected overdose. He was only twenty-six years...
Not out of the woods yet
2018 was BC's second worst wildfire season in history, following 2017 as the worst fire season on record. Over 600 wildfires burned simultaneously...
50 years of Navigation
The Navigator is turning 50 next year. That’s right, 50, the big five-oh. We’ll be an official quinquagenarian—say that five times fast. We’ve been...
New year, new Nav
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But what about a university press that switched from newspaper to magazine format after 49 years?...
What’s ableism?
I first heard the term “ableism” at the Nanaimo Women’s March last January. VIU’s Student Union was handing out pins. One said, “Unlearn racism,”...