Cole Schisler

Managing Editor   Cole is a fourth-year creative writing student with a focus in journalism and scriptwriting. He was shortlisted for the 2018 Fraser MacDougall Prize for Best New Voice in Human Rights Reporting. Cole sits on the board of directors for CHLY and hosts the Kinetic Flow, a hip-hop program on the station. He is also the editor of the VIU Compass. This is his second year as Managing Editor of The Nav.
Print Newspaper logo with a compass in left corner that reads “Navigator Vol. 1, No. 1, October 16, 1996, Single Copy C10.”

A journey through time

The first issue of the Navigator was released October 16, 1969. (Technically, yes, that is only 49 years ago, however, the Navigator is currently in...

Profiles of Discontent City

Nanaimo’s Discontent City has been a hot-button issue for residents of Nanaimo since the camp was formed in May of 2018. Discontent City is a tent...

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...

The fourth wall

In film, ‘breaking the fourth wall’ is a term for when actors break character and address the audience directly, blurring the line between fiction...

Editorial standards

It’s been the punchline of late-night comics for over a year now, but fake news is not a joke. The implications of spreading a false story are quite...