The platform stipulates that, if elected, the Liberal government would “continue the collaboration with the provinces and territories to improve accessibility, shorten wait times, increase access to a family doctor and improving the quality of care for the nearly five million who lack access.”
The Liberal Party ran on a platform promising to increase student grants, while making student loans more flexible and affordable.
One of the key issues the government needs to sufficiently address is discrimination against First Nations communities in the child welfare system.
Liberal incumbent Joyce Murray has been re-elected as MP for UBC’s riding of Vancouver Quadra.
Canadian voters will head to the polls on October 21 to elect the forty-third Canadian Parliament. This is what the four main parties have promised so far on making post-secondary education more affordable.
Eat Think Vote is a national campaign organized in partnership with Food Secure Canada and Meal Exchange. The campaign offers a platform for community members and politicians to discuss Canadian food insecurity.
The next federal election is on October 21. Read this to get informed.
The climate crisis is among the top priorities for voters in the 2019 federal election and all the major parties have proposed plans to address it, but they vary greatly both in terms of their policy promises and their likely feasibility and impact.
Only three of the six candidates running in the riding participated in the debates. Conservative and independent candidates have criticized the ethics and party inclusion of the two events.
Tensions will be running high for many Canadian citizens at UBC. But will the same tension be felt by the non-Canadian students?
As we head deeper into the 2019 federal election, students and faculty members with dual citizenship at UBC can fulfill their civic duty and vote for their representatives in the House of Commons. Some dual citizens may have been born here but didn’t grow up in Canada at all. It can be a little more uncomfortable — if you don’t feel engaged in Canadian politics, should you bother voting at all?
From a special polling station in the AMS Student Nest to advanced polling over Thanksgiving weekend across the country, Elections Canada has made voting for students an easy process — so long as they are on Canadian soil.
The AMS hosted a viewing party for the debate in the Lower Atrium of the Nest where students filled rows of seats and watched as the political leaders debated.
Here in Canada, the form of government is based on the British Parliamentary System, but — naturally — it’s called the Canadian Parliamentary System instead.
The event was held as part of 100 Debates on the Environment, a nonpartisan organization focused on promoting the environment as an election issue through debate.
