This year, COP 27 took place in Egypt from November 6–18 and I attended as an official observer. On a personal scale, it’s difficult to begin to process and digest the incomprehensible statistics I’m confronted with every time I look at the news. I often feel like a single drop of water trying to terminate a forest fire.
Here’s what to expect at the December 14 Senate meeting.
The SRC North construction near the Life Building is hard to miss. But, what sustainability features will the building have when it opens?
The AMS Sustainable Action Plan (ASAP) outlines how your student society will improve its sustainability going forward. Besides outlining how the AMS will practice sustainability, it also states the AMS’s commitment to ethical and sustainable purchasing, including guidelines for licensees, contractors and employers.
We’re in the final stretch of the semester and oh boy, is it hard. Homesickness is starting to hit and you’re just starting to realize that the elective you took for an easy A is dragging your average way down. It’s slump city.
Here’s what to expect at the November 16 Senate meeting.
The next on-campus VCH COVID-19 booster clinic will be held on November 14 and 15 from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Life Sciences Centre. Flu shots can be booked at this location, with some walk-in availability.
“Isn’t the weather beautiful? I can’t believe it’s not raining. It’s like, who did this?” The answer is, no, the weather is not nice. And the climate crisis did this.
On Wednesday night, AMS Council is set to vote on a motion to revise its Records Policy (SR2) that, if passed, would mean members of the AMS, which are students, cannot request access to internal correspondence or raw data (data collected by or for the AMS).
Here's what you need to know for the October 2022 Senate meeting.
The UBC Senate is one of the two highest governing bodies at UBC. But what does it really do?
Although it seems like the municipal government does not hold as much decision-making power as the provincial and federal levels, municipal government responsibilities include regulating law enforcement, community services and land-use planning.
Dispelling the big myth about the arts degree and highlighting its importance in a changing world.
The AMS has acted on the letter of its commitment, but not the spirit — your tuition is still being used to trade your future for short-term profit by supporting RBC, Canada’s largest fossil fuel financier.
In the Indigenous world, storytelling is how we know everything we know. Knowledge passed down from generation to generation, changing and evolving as the world does, too.