Candidates Kuol Akuechbeny, Stuart Clarke, Chris Hakim, Jas Kullar and Spencer Latu met again at Friday’s Great Debate to discuss diversity, AMS employees’ right to unionize and their idea of a typical day as AMS president.
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The first question asked why each candidate should be trusted with students’ money in light of recent scandals where other student unions have mismanaged funds.
After a tepid start, the candidates did their best to separate themselves from their opponents, with mixed results.
It was the long-set rivalry between Holmes, the current VP Academic and University Affairs, and Braam, the current AMS law councillor, that defined the debate.
Generally, most unions are not transparent about their expenditures.
AMS Associate VP Finance Jon Tomalty held a clear advantage over Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) VP Finance Lucia Liang and International Relations Students Association Treasurer Viki Loncar in a debate that centred on business surpluses, clubs’ credit cards and the AMS investment policy.
AMS VP External Cristina Ilnitchi, Associate VP External Will Shelling and AMS Councillor for Science Undergraduate Society Riley Ty debated on how they would lobby with provincial and federal governments on issues like transit, climate change, postsecondary access and affordability and sexual violence prevention advocacy.
Senate candidates crowded the Michael Kingsmill Forum on Thursday to discuss fall reading break, academic policy and space constraints on campus.
On Thursday, VP Administration candidates met for the first of two debates in the 2019 AMS elections season.
According to Chief Electoral Officer Halla Bertrand, the AMS Elections Committee noticed private email addressed being reached through Clubhouse yesterday after receiving a complaint from a club executive.
UBC has quietly withdrawn from its involvement with the Allard Prize for International Integrity without explanation.
First implemented in 1995, Policy 3 outlines UBC’s process for responding to allegations of discrimination. After years of incremental updates, it is going through a big review to bring practices up to date.
After graduated in 2014 with a degree in French, Al-Hathloul has been vocal in pushing for gender equality in Saudi Arabia — particularly against male wardenship laws and for women’s right to drive.
Stuart Clarke, an AMS presidential and senator-at-large hopeful, has been placed in the penalty box again.
Former Ohio Governor John Kasich spoke to students on Tuesday about his life and the threat posed by climate change.