After opening with a beautiful rendition of “O Holy Night,” the format for the show was explained. The Pop Symphony would open the show, followed immediately by the jazz band, then the two would go back and forth for the rest of the show.
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The Vancouver International Mountain Festival has been a regular fixture on UBC’s campus over the last two decades that the festival has been around. It aims to bring the best outdoor mountain films and premier them at venues across the entire city.
The influx of young talent came with a growing trend of Canadian athletes choosing to stay north of the border for their varsity careers due to several factors ranging from the costs to the rise in level and quality of U Sports competition.
Just because there won’t be any U Sports action until September doesn’t mean that any of the Thunderbirds will be competing in their respective sports.
“You really see the bus transform as it moves through the city — who's on it and the atmosphere on the bus really changes as it moves.”
The event is in its third year and in its second in the month of September, an approach that has proven to attract a larger crowd as opposed to the original date that was set in April. Last year’s event attracted just about 100 people and skaters,
The faculties of engineering and medicine are cooperating to form an undergraduate division within a new school specific to biomedical engineering. Students may be entering the school as early as fall 2017.
At first, the game looked to be in UBC’s favor as Elizabeth Theems-Golding ran the ball past Alberta’s defence before getting tackled just before the goal line. However, a botched pass led to an interception and Alberta took the game in the othe
Ideas Lounge is a wine bar and lunch spot nestled away in the courtyard of the Koerner Learning centre on the very northern tip of campus. You can cut through a little path just off the center of the Rose Garden to get there.
UBC Dean of Education Blye Frank hosted his inaugural public lecture Frankly Speaking yesterday evening, focusing on the topic of Mental Health Literacy. Santa Ono participated, placing focus on addressing the stigma surrounding mental health.
It was a great show by the women’s rugby team, who finally got their first win after an overall disappointing season. The T-Birds will finish with a 1-3 record and second to last in the Canada West conference. Let’s hope that the style of play that w
In January 2017, UBC will be partnering with the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) to launch a program that will help early-stage tech startups gain access to advisors and angel investors that will help them grow.
Going in with a 0-4 record in conference play, the Thunderbird men’s hockey team was betting on taking both of their games against the University of Alberta Golden Bears. They took Friday’s game with a 5-2 win. They fell 9-4 to Alberta on Saturday.
The wins were a bonus for the ’Birds, as they’ve already clinched their 26th Canada West title after beating the University of Victoria Vikes twice two weeks ago. They won the first game 1-0 and scored late in the second to win 2-1 and clinch the tit
The basis of the play follows Esther and Gilles’ transition from living in Montreal to Vancouver. It starts out poking fun at the differences between the two cities such as the fact that it never (ever) stops raining in Vancouver.