VP finance candidates Abhi Mishra and Linda Zheng generally agreed on issues facing the AMS, but had slightly different plans to deal with the issues at the first candidate debate on Thursday.
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Last night, seven senator-at-large candidates showed little disagreement but varying levels of knowledge on Senate policy when discussing academic concessions, new Senate policies and Indigenous initiatives.
Board of Governors candidates Eshana Bhangu, Kareem Hassib, Onyekachukwu Odenigbo and Sultana Razia agreed on all but the details at first debate.
Trans students said separating the two referendum items — and making the item on gender-affirming care conditional on the general fee item passing — implies they should be treated differently than cisgender students by the AMS.
It’s sweaty and full of bodily fluids. It’s dark, humid and has the scent of something that died a few days ago. It’s full of all kinds of hair and other unmentionables… it’s the Pit on a Wednesday evening.
Last night, AMS Council met to discuss the 2022/23 budget reforecast which projects a significantly reduced deficit for this year.
Persons who use drugs and activists gathered for a student-organized panel on Tuesday to assess the impact of BC’s decriminalization of small amounts of illicit drugs, one month into the province’s pilot program.
It’s dark. You’re driving down University Boulevard, and the silence of your night-time drive is only fractured by the sweet lullabies of a crooning Taylor Swift filtering through your car stereo. It’s a perfect drive — too perfect. You speed up, delighted by the gentle purr of your car’s engine, when all of a sudden you see it: A flash of black. Then blue — that dreaded blue.
You’re lonely. I’m lonely. And that’s completely okay.
At the event held on March 1, members of the Indigenous Committee and AMS Elections candidates asked questions back and forth about how candidates viewed decolonization and what the Indigenous Committee wanted to see from candidates.
VP administration candidates Anuoluwapo Awotunde, Chayan Lu, Jake Sawatzky and Ian Caguiat generally agreed on improving club communications, but clashed on approaches to space allocation at last night’s debate.
The Thunderbirds are off to their second straight Canada West final after winning their best-of-three weekend series against the University of Saskatchewan Huskies.
Kanji said he believes "very deeply in the power" of student advocacy and would attend protests and ensure the AMS would take the lead on these issues.
The club has been around for decades, and members gather three times a week to learn how to chop, bucksaw, pole climb and throw axes.
In the first presidential debate this AMS Election cycle, the two candidates in attendance mostly kept to themselves as they laid out their different visions for the AMS.