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.
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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.
While I myself am still learning about myself and what it means for me to fit in, I would and will never hide the fact that I am mixed.
With regards to Indigenous documentation and similar matters, I would ask that settler individuals truly listen to Indigenous individuals.
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I feel that current candidates that have positions within the AMS, campaign and work during the day, and have access to policy information had an unfair advantage over the new candidates. As an outsider, I believe candidates who have positions within the AMS should not be in their positions for the election process.
“Everyone bikes, and I do mean everyone. People on their way to work, women in heels, parents fixing adjustable children seats onto their bikes to transport their toddlers to day-care.”
"There’s hundreds of valid reasons to say no to an outing, but then why does it always feel so hard when you’ve got the invite sitting in your notifications? In a word, FOMO. In four words, 'fear of missing out.'"
"The time constraints that the AMS Elections Committee institute are almost designed to make you hate participating. No thoughts are fully expressed, no nuance is conveyed and all this tell us is that no thought is used to design the debates."
"The thing is, India doesn’t have one official language, it has two — that is, Hindi and English. Of course, these are just the languages that the federal government operates in because practically, there are 22 scheduled languages, 122 major languages and around 1,600 other languages."
"What goes on in the Senate chambers can often feel very overwhelming or dull to the average student, and the agenda docket posted before every Senate meeting can be long and tedious to read. Here’s what to expect at the April 19th Senate meeting"
Scroll through to the bottom of the page and you’ll find some awesome resources about consent, STIs, contraception, and sexual assault, but one thing is conspicuously missing: the “emotional health”wdfafdsg
“UBC claims its companies are not covered by FOI laws because they are ‘private and independent.‘ This trend is quietly and adroitly defeating the entire purpose of FOI.“
“It is using this experience that I address the issue of present AMS Elected Officials currently seeking further elected office in the present AMS Elections and the issue of ‘conflict of interest.’”
In this Last Words, Ubyssey editors discuss unsightly construction, the importance of going to class and a promising future for UBC football.
Shanee Prasad takes issue with a recent opinion piece on raising the minimum wage.
Firstly I would like to clarify that The Ubyssey did not state that an increase was a bad idea, it only questioned whether an increase of $4.75 is too drastic.
In this Last Words, Ubyssey editors discuss UBC's progress — or lack thereof — in minimizing animal testing, empty rooms in rez and U-Pass and SSC troubles.
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