Friday, Thamer Almestadi appeared at the BC Supreme Court for the fourth day of trial in connection with an attack that occured at UBC on October 4, 2016. Almestadi — a 19-year-old international student — has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon.
In connection with an attack that happened at UBC in October of 2016, Thamer Almestadi, a 19-year-old international student, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon. On Thursday, he appeared at the BC Supreme Court for the third day of trial.
Adi Pick, a fourth-year international relations student, is one of 19 candidates running to replace the nine Vancouver School Board trustees who were fired last year. Along with being an independent candidate, she is also by far the youngest contender.
A male body was discovered early this morning at a construction site near the UBC bus loop. Police have not identified whether the individual was a student or a construction worker.
Thamer Almestadi, who has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon in connection with an attack that happened at UBC in October 2016, appeared at his second day of trial Wednesday.
This November, five undergraduate students from UBC will have the extraordinary honour of sitting in on the United Nations Climate Change Conference, called Conference of Parties (COP 23) in Bonn, Germany.
Yesterday, UBC hosted a Day of Learning to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Japanese-Canadian internment, which saw the “mass exodus of 23,000 Japanese-Canadians” during the Second World War and their forced relocation from BC following the war.
Today was the first day of the BC Supreme Court trial of former UBC student Thamer Almestadi, who has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon after allegedly attacking a fellow UBC student last October. Almestadi has pled not guilty to all charges against him.
The AMS has declined to discuss the financial impact of its failed or revamped businesses, though meeting minutes from 2013 provide insight into how much the union has spent on several logo changes in a two-year period.
A former student at the Okanagan campus has filed a complaint against UBC with BC’s Human Rights Tribunal, alleging that the university mishandled her case after she reported a sexual assault.
The AMS expects the construction of the old SUB will cost anywhere from $855,000 to $1.7 million in overage costs on a budget of $5 million.
Due to ongoing renovations in the old SUB, Sprouts, a volunteer-run cafe that serves sustainable food on campus, will be closed until the next academic year. While construction has been ongoing in the Old SUB for over a year, Sprouts had been using a part of the Pit during the day for the past academic year.
After two years of steep deficit spending and an investigation by The Ubyssey that exposed evidence of mismanaged student funds, UBCSUO has fired its general manager and hired an accounting firm to conduct an external review.
This year, the AMS plans to improve student representation in the allocation process of the UBC Excellence Fund. This will be done through encouraging more consultations between the AMS and different student constituencies, including first-year constituencies.
Controversy was stirred when a bare last-minute webpage called Squirrels of AMS was created in March 2017 days before the election and popped up on Voter Media during the AMS General Elections.