2021 News
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December 03, 2021
On November 18, 2021, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV was one of more than 40 universities and colleges across Canada that...
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November 30, 2021
On December 6, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV will host its annual memorial for the women lost in the École Polytechnique...
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November 26, 2021
Sophonie Priebe remembers feeling lost and alone during her first year at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, wondering if there...
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November 20, 2021
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Senate voted on September 13, 2021 to hire at least 15 Black tenured faculty. The new hires are...
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November 18, 2021
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV has signed onto the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian...
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October 04, 2021
Between September 27 – October 1, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV marked the university’s first National Truth and...
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September 21, 2021
Another key milestone is reached for the First Peoples’ Gathering House project as architectural...
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September 13, 2021
Learn more about the Indigenous Student Centre (ISC), a key partner in advancing reconciliation at...
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September 10, 2021
Understanding the intersections between identity and systemic inequality is complex, and Carolyn...
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August 23, 2021
What you learn at university, you’ll take out with you into the world. Perhaps no unit at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV...
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August 18, 2021
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV is home to a community of students, faculty and staff who come from all around the world,...
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August 16, 2021
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s new partnership with the Resilience BC Anti-Racism Network, a...
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July 30, 2021
On March 24, 2021, the House of Commons voted unanimously to officially designate August 1 as...
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July 29, 2021
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV is taking an important step towards its goal of creating safer, more inclusive campus...
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July 15, 2021
Over the past year, conversations about racism—specifically anti-Indigenous, anti-Black and...
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July 12, 2021
Antisemitism is on the rise in Canada and around the world. ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV is no exception to this. Jewish...
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July 07, 2021
Grassroots activism has been a trademark of ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV since its inception in the turbulent 60’s, and a...
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June 24, 2021
Today, for the second time in as many months, we are hearing more sad and disturbing news of the...
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June 21, 2021
The ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV community is no stranger to the sound of bagpipes on Burnaby Mountain. Twice a year, we...
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June 15, 2021
Content warning: the beginning of this article includes mentions of specific Islamophobic hate...
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May 31, 2021
As we continue to grieve the enormous loss discovered at the former Kamloops Indian Residential...
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May 18, 2021
While cases of COVID-19 are beginning to drop in B.C., this is not the case around the world. There...
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May 18, 2021
When lecturer Sarah Johnson approached the chair of ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s Department of Physics to propose the...
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April 16, 2021
When Julia Lane set out to develop an inclusive and antiracist writing guide to support peer...
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March 23, 2021
Ashley Edwards joined the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Library last year as the Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre (ICRC)...
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March 18, 2021
In the wake of the murders of 6 Asian women in Atlanta, Georgia, and in the context of a pandemic...
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March 12, 2021
During January, staff working in ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s admissions department are typically busy processing an...
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March 08, 2021
It’s getting a little crowded in Athena Guertin’s tiny downtown apartment these days. Almost...
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March 05, 2021
Throughout her 19 years at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Dal Sohal has demonstrated a compassionate, curious, and dedicated...
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March 04, 2021
International Women’s Day is on March 8. This year, we hope you will join us as we celebrate...
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February 22, 2021
In 2009, a Nova Scotia student was bullied at school for wearing a pink shirt. His classmates...
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Q&A with President Johnson about hiring ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s first Vice-President People, Equity and Inclusion
February 19, 2021
Last year, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV President Joy Johnson committed to adding a new executive position to ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s...
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February 09, 2021
Last December, while much of the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV community was winding down for the holidays, the staff at...