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Eshana Bhangu, Julia Burnham, Cole Evans, Chris Hakim and Max Holmes are your next student senators-at-large.
Cole Evans has become the new AMS president-elect beating out competitors Ian Stone and Harresh Thayakaanthan.
This will be Malone and Holmes’s fourth and second year on the Board respectively. In their platforms and debates, they displayed institutional knowledge that comes from having worked inside UBC for several years.
The statement articulates that the AMS respects “Wet’suwe’ten jurisdiction, governance, and law,” while acknowledging that UBC campus is located on traditional, ancestral, and unceded Musqueam territory.
The Ubyssey is fact-checking every candidate’s platform and all the statements they made during the debates to determine whether they're true, misleading or plain old false.
The Ubyssey is fact-checking every candidate’s platform and all the statements they made during the debates to determine whether they're true, misleading or plain old false.
The SLFS was founded in 1998 by an AMS referendum to help support the costs of court cases brought against UBC students.
Not only did the AMS Election candidates fill their platforms with strong assertions, but they also made several claims in the two debates.
The Ubyssey is fact-checking every candidate’s platform and all the statements they made during the debates to determine whether they're true, misleading or plain old false.
Moonias wanted this experience to be very different from the “harsh” debates and foster respectful communication, conversation and connection between candidates and Indigenous students.
The UBC demonstration was one of many at post-secondary schools across the country including Langara College, Western University and the University of Toronto, among others.
Throughout the two debates, uncontested incumbent VP finance candidate, Lucia Liang fielded questions related to her specific platform promises.
The installation was created by students in support of the Wet’suwet’en land defenders and hereditary chiefs who oppose the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline on their unceded territory, as well as the Indigenous youth who have been demonstrating at the BC legislature in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en.
To gather student responses and understand how students feel about the tradeoffs associated with implementing a reading break in the fall term, the Senate will be launching a student survey from February 26 to March 13.