Trudeau pledges support for Ukraine, mum on support for next step in NATO membership
UBC Political Science Prof. Allen Sens believes Ukraine joining NATO will be raised only out of politeness, but that it’s largely “off the table.”
UBC Political Science students build websites to help the public understand some key issues in Canadian Politics
UBC Political Science students studying with Professor Fred Cutler have created a new set of guides to some of the key issues in Canadian politics.
Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for inclusion, democracy and reconciliation recipient Xi Yuan Pang interviewed in Vancouver Sun
“I hope this award reflects not my contributions and civic engagements, but that it’s very much a testament to the people and the community at UBC who have given me that space to be who I am,” Xi Yuan (Cecilia) Pang said.
Pipeline Workers Are Scaring Indigenous Elders Away From Their Own Lands
UBC Political Science Professor Sheryl Lightfoot explains how governments and states are “completely side-stepping” Indigenous human rights while extracting resources without consultation and consent of traditional Indigenous communities.
UBC President Santa Ono’s Statement on the Missing Children of the Kamloops Indian Residential School
Universities, including UBC, bear part of the responsibility for this history, not only for having trained many of the policy makers and administrators who operated the residential school system, and doing so little to address the exclusion from higher education that the schools so effectively created, but also for tacitly accepting the silence surrounding it.
Congratulations to our 2021 Graduates
As if completing your degree wasn’t high enough of an achievement, you have persevered through the most extraordinary added challenges of the global pandemic. You are sure to be the most resilient generation of young leaders going forward, we can’t wait to hear of where your talents take you next.
UBC Political Science student overcomes health issues to win Lieutenant Governor’s medal
Xi Yuan Pang recognized for her contributions to the promotion of democracy. This week, her efforts are being acknowledged as she is named the winner of the 2021 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Inclusion, Democracy and Reconciliation at her graduation ceremony on June 2.
Canada’s oldest oil and gas trade association to drop ‘oil’ from its name in bid to alter image
Prof. Kathryn Harrison noted several companies have removed the word “oil” from their name, using the term “energy” as a euphemism for oil while maintaining the company’s operations.
Prof. Yang-Yang Zhou named as a CIFAR-Azrieli Global Scholar
Dr. Zhou joins the Boundaries, Membership, and Belonging research program, which explores how to create and empower groups without falling back into ideas that produce pernicious divisions and hierarchies.
SpaceX, Amazon, and OneWeb’s mega-constellations risk huge collisions in games of ‘chicken’, Michael Byers warns
The constellation of satellites proposed by huge companies could deposit more aluminium into the Earth’s upper atmosphere, Michael Byers and Aaron Boley write in their report.