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Rapper Alick Mac spotlights men’s mental health with hard-hitting rap lyrics in Boys’ Club show at the 2025 Nanaimo Fringe Festival.

Tim May sits down with us to discuss the changes he’s making to the VIU cafeteria. This involves better meals for the students, more affordable options, and food made from scratch.

So much to buy for these holidays! Buying decorations and gifts has an environmental impact; keep reading to learn how to hack these holidays by becoming a more conscious consumer.

There’s no alarm clock needed here. The day begins with the deep rumble of engines, the metallic clank of bulldozer tracks, and the endless rhythm of trucks shuttling back and forth. Construction has become the soundtrack of residence life, impossible to tune out—sometimes exciting, sometimes exhausting. Expect 266 new beds, one dining hall, and a whole lot of student opinions.

Attending events isn’t just about showing up—it’s about unlocking opportunities most students overlook. Beyond the free snacks and name tags, these moments often spark lifelong friendships, mentorships, and even career connections. See what campus has to offer for your career!

We live in a special place on this planet, surrounded by rainforest. BC is one of a kind, and we take it for granted. Logging in BC and on Vancouver Island is engrained in our history. Many islanders try to protect our irreplaceable forests while creating more jobs to substitute for the loss of loggers’ livelihoods and transform this multibillion-dollar industry, but are they having much...

Did you know that black cats are more likely to be euthanized than any other colour of cats? This piece explores the reverence cats once held in ancient Egypt, to their systematic mass slaughter. Read on about stigma, black cats, and how the only dark aspect about them is their fur.

Amber Fiegen, multi-disciplinary artist and creator behind The Hollowbird—a small business selling her hand-crafted creations—shares her love of nature and how she became who she wanted to be growing up.

A poem that begs nature for an answer to modern human woes and existential dread.

A poem that asks whose grief birds carry.

In the second instalment of his classic media series, The Nav’s Videographer Daxton Comba tours Nanaimo’s local campus community radio, CHLY 101.7 FM, to learn more about how radio stations are run. Passing 24 years of broadcasting this October, CHLY is looking toward the quarter-century anniversary of campus community radio on the Salish Sea. Daxton speaks with CHLY Executive Director and...

In his second installment as The Nav’s Sports Videographer, Liam Prendergast hits the sidelines with the Vancouver Island Raiders, a Canadian Junior Football League team. Liam joins the Raiders for both practice and game day, capturing the intensity of their Island rivalry game, the Battle of the Rock, against the Westshore Rebels. Steady rain and a slick field added to the challenge of...

Join Elke for the Halloween edition of Elke’s on the Island. In this episode, Elke brings the spooky vibes by chatting with sisters Gina Armstrong and Victoria Vancek, co-founders of Haunted History BC, about ghostly encounters at historical haunts around British Columbia. Their interview even features audio containing the voice of an alleged ghost woman. Then, Elke asks folks from her social...