Hours after pro-life demonstrations began last Wednesday March 9, a sign belonging to UBC Lifeline was destroyed by an individual wielding a pocket knife. The individual is described as being a blonde female of average height.
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Taking place in the Nest, this year’s theme is “Theory to Practice: Imagining Our Feminist Futures.” Students across disciplines and faculties present their own original work that explores a variety of subjects.
According to a Canada Department of Finance study, “the current generation of young Canadians is, on average, wealthier than previous generations of young Canadians.” But one UBC prof says this isn’t true.
After yesterday's revelations of a court decision that Greg Peet dodged over $1 million in provincial income taxes, Peet is stepping down from his membership on UBC's Board of Governors and his role as chair of the finance committee.
Greg Peet, a provincially-appointed member of the UBC Board of Governors, is currently in court appealing a December 2015 ruling that a company he owned dodged over $1 million in provincial taxes in 2002, a UBC Insiders investigation found.
The talks were inspired by Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein’s recent book, This Changes Everything, where Klein argues the current era of capitalism and neoliberal market fundamentalism.
The biggest difference between UBCO and UBC Vancouver is that from its very inception, the former had an understanding with the local Indigenous groups. UBC Vancouver has been playing catch-up with UBCO in how to engage with Indigenous communities.
Reasons cited on her blog post announcing her decision include a belief that the committee is not willing to “hear the concerns of faculty and learn from mistakes of the recent past to improve the future of UBC.”
The reasons for shutting down the program were not disclosed in Moroney’s statement. Tutors believe that it is due to financial issues facing the centre, but this has not been confirmed by the university administration.
“Aside from the occasional emotional meltdown, I’m having a really good time. I’m learning about all the fun positions out there and all the ways that you can hate somebody. I never knew it was so dynamic, so multifaceted. No one’s ever happy.”
Six UBC students plan to screen “Highway of Tears,” a documentary that brings up the issue of more than 520 missing and stolen Indigenous women in Northern BC. The documentary screening will be followed by panel discussion with guest speakers.
The beginning of the term witnessed a number of documents pertaining to Arvind Gupta's resignation being inadvertently released, revealing that the formation of an ad hoc committee of the board precipitated his resignation.
Like all major capital projects in UBC, the microbrewery must go through three stages of exec approval and three stages of approval from the board. Currently the project is going through the second executive-approval stage.
About half a dozen pro-life activists have set up displays outside the architecture building, displaying what one sign calls the “insanity of choice” and equating abortion to the Holocaust or Cambodian genocide.
Compared to the 55 per cent turnout rate for this age demographic in 2011, the 2015 federal elections witnessed an increased turnout of 67 per cent. Similarly, the turnout rate for citizens between the ages of 25-34 also increased by 11 per cent.