University of British Columbia

The vaccination rate for the 50+ crowd at UBC is lagging slightly behind surrounding areas according to neighbourhood-level vaccination figures.According to the BCCDC COVID-19 Surveillance Dashboard, the 50+ population…
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TORONTO, July 29, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ryan, a leading global tax services and software provider, announced that the annual Sandra Cawley Awards in Education, Nursing, and Social Work for Indigenous Students have been approved by The…
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This article contains mention of sexual assault.Stephanie Hale’s and UBC’s legal teams will finish up cross-examination in the BC Human Rights Tribunal on August 16, following UBC’s failure to disclose an email exchange…
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A business launched by two UBC students has been acquired by UpMeals, a Vancouver-based food technology company. UpMeals, planning to bring its “digital kiosks” of meals to university campuses, partnered up with Grubgrab…
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The University of British Columbia is planning on doing the "bare minimum" to keep students safe from COVID-19 when in-person classes return in the fall, the school's student society says. An open letter penned by the Alma Mater Society…
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The University of British Columbia’s faculty of medicine formally apologized Friday for its role in past and present harms to Indigenous Peoples and committed to expand its response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s…
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Steven Galloway wrote a fictional account of Harry Houdini the new book is called the Confabulist. John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail The meeting was held on a Sunday, at a professor’s house. All tenured and tenure-track professors…
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – It will very much be something closer to normal for universities and colleges in B.C., as the province outlined details Monday on what the return to class will look like in September. Masks will be…
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UBC’s student union is calling on the university to make masks mandatory in lectures and vaccines mandatory in residences due to concern over COVID-19 spread. The Alma Mater Society (AMS) recently commissioned a survey of…
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Barbara Reed did everything she could to help Ollie O'Rourke keep cool on a late June evening during the deadly heat wave in British Columbia.  Reed, a tour bus driver in Richmond., B.C., could tell from her first aid training that…
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