UBC Media Coverage Summary – 03/01/2016

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International/National
Chicago Tribune: Traveler’s dilemma: To post or not to post?
Globe and Mail: Unconditional offers are new normal in Vancouver real estate market
National Post: Liberals to scrap two-year delay before spouses from overseas win permanent residency

Local News
Global News: New UBC journalism project aims to raise awareness about rare diseases
CBC Early Edition: Middle schools: pros and cons
CBC Early Edition: Rounding at the Belkin teaches fine art appreciation to UBC medical students
Vancouver Sun: Vancouver’s density helps it reach car-sharing milestone
Vancouver Sun: Q&A: James Jones talks unique style of dancing and what he learned from So You Think You Can Dance Canada
Kelowna Capital News: Celebrate UBC’s first century with a night at the opera

International/National

Chicago Tribune: Traveler’s dilemma: To post or not to post?
Chicago Tribune ran a Detroit Free Press story highlighting the practice of posting travel photos on social media. The article mentioned a 2015 UBC study, which found that seeing photos of other people’s travels stirs up anxiety, jealousy and envy among Facebook users, leading to a vicious cycle of counter-posting to tell the world their own lives are exciting too. Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times

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Globe and Mail: Unconditional offers are new normal in Vancouver real estate market
Vancouver’s red-hot housing market has spawned a phenomenon of unconditional offers, reports the Globe and Mail. UBC real estate economist Tom Davidoff says a preoffer home inspection is becoming necessary if a buyer is to even have a chance to bid successfully on a home–and even then there are no guarantees of winning. Globe and Mail

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National Post: Liberals to scrap two-year delay before spouses from overseas win permanent residency
Vancouver immigration lawyer and adjunct UBC professor Alex Stojicevic was quoted in a Postmedia article on Ottawa’s plans to change permanent residency rules. Stojicevic believes the two-year delay before spouses from overseas gain permanent residency caused more problems than it solved. Marriage fraud detection has also improved in the past few years, making the policy unnecessary, Stojicevic said. National Post, Vancouver Sun

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Local News

Global News: New UBC journalism project aims to raise awareness about rare diseases
Global News featured Million Dollar Med$, a video project by students at UBC’s journalism school and pharmaceutical sciences faculty. The project highlights the difficulties around rare diseases, which generally require extremely expensive medications, and the fact that Canada is one of the few developed countries without a policy supporting development of new orphan drugs. Global News, CBC News

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CBC Early Edition: Middle schools: pros and cons
UBC education professor Sandra Mathison weighs in on the Abbotsford school board’s decision to remove Grade 6 and 7 classes from the district’s six rural elementary schools and to bus the kids to middle schools starting September 2017. According to Mathison, the value of middle schools remains unproven, and there are ways to prepare upper elementary students for secondary school without taking them out of the K-8 environment. Preserving the kids’ community connection is also important, Mathison said. CBC Early Edition

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CBC Early Edition: Rounding at the Belkin teaches fine art appreciation to UBC medical students
Shelly Rosenblum, curator of academic programs at the Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, discussed a new for-credit course for UBC medical students. “We’re interested in working on a process of slowing down and taking time to observe things that might be difficult to understand or provoke a whole range of affective and emotional responses, and to be open to finding ways to communicate better based on those experiences,” said Rosenblum. CBC Early Edition (segment begins at 1:02:56)

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Vancouver Sun: Vancouver’s density helps it reach car-sharing milestone
Car sharing remains rare in the suburbs but it has taken off in Vancouver, reports the Vancouver Sun. Marc-David Seidel, a professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business, says car sharing companies make sense only for high-density cities. Vancouver Sun, The Province

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Vancouver Sun: Q&A: James Jones talks unique style of dancing and what he learned from So You Think You Can Dance Canada
The Coastal First Nations Dance Festival, slated for March 1 to 6 at the Museum of Anthropology, is highlighted in a Vancouver Sun article. The lineup includes performer James Jones, who blends contemporary urban styles with traditional powwow and hoop dances. Vancouver Sun

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Kelowna Capital News: Celebrate UBC’s first century with a night at the opera
UBC celebrates its first century and the 10th anniversary of its Okanagan campus with a March 21st performance by opera students from the Vancouver campus. Kelowna Capital News

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