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A biweekly podcast produced by CFUV’s friends across the hall and Uvic’s independent campus newspaper, The Martlet! Created on the traditional unceded territories of the WSANEC and Lkwungen people.
The Martlet Pod is a collaborative project between The Martlet & CFUV and aims to let you listen to your local news wherever you listen to podcasts. The Martlet Pod is produced by Laura Smith. Image by Darian Colpitts.
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Episode 13: Kate Korte on a year of reporting amid COVID-19
In this episode Laura sits down with Editor-in-Chief Kate Korte to talk about how UVic handled the COVID-19 pandemic over this past year, some questions she has about how an in-person campus might look come September, and what it's been like to run a newspaper during a global pandemic.
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Episode 12: Michael John Lo on the Fairy Creek Blockades
Kate sits down senior Martlet staff writer Michal John Lo to discuss his recent trip to the Fairy Creek Blockades which have been set up in an attempt to protect old growth forests near Port Renfrew from being logged by Teal-Jones.
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Episode 11: Mary Heeg - Grading at Uvic
On this episode, Senior Staff Editor Mary Heeg talks about her recent article on grading at UVic where she investigated the high percentage of A grades, grade distribution and how that all affects students.
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Episode 10: Chris Driscoll on UVSS elections
This episode features Senior Staff Writer Chris Driscoll about the upcoming UVSS Election... covering why students should vote, what the UVSS does, and why this election looks a little different than years prior.
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Episode 9: Alec Lazenby - social enterprise and providing for unhoused youth in Victoria
Social enterprise, housing, and what it's like to be a student journalist
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Episode 8: The Martlet's Upcoming Sex, Sexuality & Gender Issue; UVic's Chair in Transgender Studies is Renewed; and SOCC's Black History Month Events
This week Laura sits down with senior Martlet writer Kiley Verbowski to talk about the Martlet's upcoming issue focusing on sex, sexuality, and gender; we'll hear an update on Uvic's Chair in Transgender Studies; and Laura talks to the Students of Colour Collective about what they've got planned for Black History Month.