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Thomas Davidoff, a UBC economist, was quoted in a Globe and Mail story about changes to the foreign buyers tax in B.C. Davidoff said the changes, which apply to those […]
Mar 20, 2017
Paul Hillsdon, a student at UBC’s school of community and regional planning, spoke to the Globe and Mail, about the transformation of Surrey. Hillsdon discussed the lack of things to […]
UBC forestry professors Sally Aitken and Richard Hamelin were interviewed for a Toronto Star article about a genetically modified American chestnut tree created by an American research team. Aitken said […]
UBC Theatre’s production of Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles-soeurs was highlighted in the Georgia Straight. Diane Brown directs the production which takes place at the Frederic Wood Theatre.
Business in Vancouver featured UBC research on organic food that found the health benefits of solely eating organic food grown in Canada is “marginal” because of the country’s strict rules […]
Carrie Jenkins, a UBC philosophy professor, spoke to Daily Xtra about her book on the complexities of love. She noted that we cannot understand our biology without knowing how our […]
The Canadian Press reported on the UBC women’s university hockey final. UBC lost the close 1-0 game to the McGill Martlets.
The Globe and Mail mentioned Creative Destruction Lab West at the UBC Sauder School of Business in a story about the technology start-up incubator that began at the University of […]
UBC researchers wrote an op-ed for the Vancouver Sun about results of their study of the Canadian chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency clinical trial for multiple sclerosis. Anthony Traboulsee, the MS […]
The Globe and Mail mentioned research about the psychology of online trolls by Erin Buckels, a UBC PhD candidate. In a paper called “Trolls just want to have fun,” Buckels found […]
The golf team at UBC’s Okanagan campus is hoping for community support to play in the 2017 season after its funding was cut, Kelowna Capital News reported. The program will […]
Maclean’s published a Chatelaine story on the Canadian immigration system that featured an interview with Daniel Hiebert, a UBC professor of geography. He said the current immigrant screening measures are […]
The Tyee reported on research by Ed Kroc, a UBC statistics post-doctoral fellow, about precarious work in B.C.’s institutions. Kroc’s research found there has been an eight-fold increase in part-time workers from […]
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