At 3 p.m. on Tuesday, students gathered for a rally in solidarity with Hong Kong, wearing protester garb, giving speeches and holding moments of silence.
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The AMS’s UBC Votes 2019 campaign is now underway with a mission to get UBC’s over 50,000 students involved with the 2019 federal election on October 21.
Twitter user @JimEckmage tweeted, “I’m sorry to see @UBCSauderSchool ads on bigoted US ‘news’ site Breitbart. Please don't fund garbage sites from your retargeted Google ads!”
On September 23, PWIAS announced its investment strategy will ensure 60 per cent of the endowment that is normally allocated to direct investment in public shares is 100 per cent fossil fuel free.
As the provincial government plans to eliminate Medical Service Plan (MSP) premiums for BC residents by next year an updated payment structure will be implemented for international students to ensure they still receive coverage under MSP.
At 11 a.m., student climate action groups including UBCC350, the UBC Social Justice Centre, Our Time, the Climate Hub and others led a strike that featured speakers, slam poets and musical acts.
Though it is officially managed by the Engineering Undergraduate Society, painting the Cairn has long been a campus tradition for groups looking to raise awareness for their causes.
First introduced at the September 14 Board of Governors committee meeting, the Food Insecurity Action Team (FIAT) brought together close to 30 students, staff and faculty from both campuses to tackle food insecurity at UBC.
At 11 a.m., students will gather outside the Nest for the UBC Climate Strike, a mass protest advocating for political and societal climate action inspired by the “School Strike for Climate” of 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
While not a UBC student, Tanner was last seen leaving the campus area on September 19 at 12:30 p.m.
The provincial campaign comes on the tail of the 2017 requirement that all public post-secondary institutions have a standalone sexual violence policy, which at UBC is up for review come December.
Dr. David Suzuki — a professor at UBC for almost 40 years — and former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations Stephen Lewis brought their message of climate activism to UBC as part of their Climate First Tour.
The campaign also allowed for the establishment of 320 new awards, with 6,595 students receiving a donor-funded award last year — up 24 per cent from two years prior.
Over the course of the last year, stakeholders from across the university have navigated dense internal and external bureaucracies, worked to build complex relationships and allowed the vision of this unique space to shift in ways unimagined during its conception.
Student groups hope to leverage the youth vote in a year where Canadians under 35 will make up the country’s biggest age group of voters, representing 37 per cent of the electorate.