Yesterday’s “Ban the Ban,” a learn-in for UBC students faculty and staff, was hosted as an “immediate and urgent response” to President Trump’s executive order restricting immigration and travel into the United States.
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From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. yesterday, students at UBC's law school participated in a national “research-a-thon” in which law students across the country examined the Safe Third Country Agreement between the United States and Canada.
This new fee would put money towards the construction of new fitness and gymnasium space for students on campus, linked to the university’s GamePlan consultation, which is currently still in progress.
“A large portion of the crowd and the organizers here [at the rally] are from UBC, and I think that that really speaks to what we stand for as a community,” said Madison Schulte, a second-year commerce student at UBC.
UBC is nearing the end of the hiring process for a managing director of campus safety and security to replace the previous role of director of Campus Security, which was left vacant when the former director transferred to athletics last semester.
In order to increase awareness of relevant elections issues, the VP External Office has been running campaigns about affordability and housing rights, as well as hosted town halls with topics such as pipelines and political fundraising.
One of Eby's goals this year is to establish a strong base of student voters. Turnout in the 18 to 24 age group was 47.9 per cent in the 2013 provincial election — the second-worst category after 25 to 34-year-olds (39.8 per cent).
“When money comes to America or to Canada or Mexico, looks from above and says, ‘Where do I want to start a business?’ It'll come here first because we have policies that are so inclusive ... they'll come to Canada.”
Kevin O'Leary came to UBC last night. In a 24-minute speech followed by a Q and A session, he outlined his vision for Canada and derided the policies of Justin Trudeau's Liberal government. Let's dig into some of the claims he made.
The Board of Governors is the third of UBC’s governing bodies (the first two are Senate and the AMS). The BoG handles the business of running a university, which includes overseeing UBC’s management, administration, and revenue, among others.
Prime Minister Trudeau has selected 11 “leading young Canadians” to add to his Youth Council — one of whom is Justin Charles Wong, a fourth-year computer engineering student at UBC. He and other members will serve as a non-partisan advisory council.
Louis Retief is proposing a new investment strategy for the AMS, which would result in an increase of an estimated $500,000 in yearly returns that it could spend. First, the question needs to be approved in the form of a referendum question.
On February 14, hundreds of people marched, drummed and chanted as part of the 27th Annual Women’s Memorial March to honour and protect the lives of missing and murdered women in the Downtown Eastside (DTES).
Aaron Bailey, one of three student representatives on the BoG, has stepped down from his position to pursue a new job in San Francisco. Bailey will also be resigning from his position with UBC Athletics & Recreation, effective Friday.
Since the program’s inception in late 2016, the Hatch Art Gallery has rented out artwork from the permanent collection at a going rate of about one per cent of a piece’s insurance value per month — for some pieces, this means over $20,000 a year.