In a broadcast message sent on Thursday evening, President Santa Ono and Principal of UBC Okanagan Lesley Cormack said masks will be required until April 30, the last day of Winter Session term two.
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UBC nursing is permanently adding 30 seats to its program after the province announced increased funding for nursing programs province-wide.
To make sure those qualifications are accurate and their goals are within the scope of the position they’re running for, we’re here to fact-check those claims.
Former youth-in-care at UBC will once again have low-barrier access to provincial funds intended to help cover some of the additional costs of an education.
The COVID-19 testing positivity rate at UBC has slightly increased, according to new data released by the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC).
The Arts Undergraduate Society leaked the email addresses of over 360 students in a mass email about its new arts student discount program.
On February 17, VP Students Ainsley Carry presented the task force’s draft recommendations to the university’s Board of Governors Finance Committee.
During the January 19 Executive Committee meeting, AMS President Cole Evans announced that the changes are designed to make accessing internal and external AMS policies easier for students.
UBC Social Justice Centre held an AMS Elections forum last night, where candidates in seven different races answered questions and agreed on the importance of the issues discussed while slightly diverging in their approaches.
Here, we fact-check statements on everything from funds and fees, freedom of expression on campus, COVID-19 concerns and everything in between.
At the first AMS elections Indigenous Forum in two years, candidates lauded the importance of following through on the Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP) and compensating Indigenous students for their work and partnership.
Several employees at the UBC Aquatic Centre have come forward with complaints of low pay, understaffing and inaction from management on employee concerns.
A new nine-week pilot project, the Food Hub Market, recently launched in the CIRS building. On February 16, the project began, providing low cost groceries to anyone on the UBC Vancouver campus.
That security guard was 24-year-old Harmandeep Kaur. Kaur came to Canada in 2015 from Punjab, India, with the hopes of attending university and eventually becoming a paramedic, according to a post from her family on a new GoFundMe.
The ballot opened at midnight, and 92 people had voted before the Elections Committee was able to address the mistakes, according to Chief Electoral Officer Shania Muthu.