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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day
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Academic library
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It is unknown how many academic libraries there are internationally. An academic and research portal maintained by UNESCO links to 3,785 libraries, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are an estimated 3,700 academic libraries in the United States. The support of teaching and learning material for class readings. In the past, the material for class readings, intended to supplement lectures as prescribed by the instructor, has been called reserves, in the period before electronic resources became available, the reserves were supplied as actual books or as photocopies of appropriate journal articles. Academic libraries must determine a focus for development since comprehensive collections are not feasible. Librarians do this by identifying the needs of the faculty and student body, as well as the mission, when there are particular areas of specialization in academic libraries, these are often referred to as niche collections. These collections are often the basis of a special department and may include original papers, artwork. There is a deal of variation among academic libraries based on their size, resources, collections. The Harvard University Library is considered to be the largest academic library in the world and has the third largest collection in the United States, another notable example is the University of the South Pacific which has academic libraries distributed throughout its twelve member countries. The first colleges in the United States were intended to train members of the clergy, the libraries associated with these institutions largely consisted of donated books on the subjects of theology and the classics. In 1766, Yale had approximately 4,000 volumes, second only to Harvard, access to these libraries was restricted to faculty members and a few students, the only staff was a part-time faculty member or the president of the college. The priority of the library was to protect the books, not to allow patrons to use them, in 1849, Yale was open 30 hours a week, the University of Virginia was open nine hours a week, Columbia University four, and Bowdoin College only three. Students instead created literary societies and assessed entrance fees in order to build a collection of usable volumes often in excess of what the university library held. Around the turn of the century, this began to change. The American Library Association was formed in 1876, with members including Melvil Dewey, Libraries re-prioritized in favor of improving access to materials, and found funding increasing as a result of increased demand for said materials. Academic libraries today vary in regard to the extent to which they accommodate those who are not affiliated with their parent universities, some offer reading and borrowing privileges to members of the public on payment of an annual fee, such fees can vary greatly. The privileges so obtained usually do not extend to such services as computer usage, other than to search the catalog, alumni and students of cooperating local universities may be given discounts or other consideration when arranging for borrowing privileges. On the other hand, access to the libraries of universities is absolutely restricted to students, faculty
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Archive
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An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organizations lifetime, in general, archives consist of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value. Archival records are normally unpublished and almost always unique, unlike books or magazines for which many copies exist. This means that archives are quite distinct from libraries with regard to their functions and organization, a person who works in archives is called an archivist. The study and practice of organizing, preserving, and providing access to information, the physical place of storage can be referred to as an archive, an archives, or a repository. When referring to historical records or the places they are kept, the computing use of the term archive should not be confused with the record-keeping meaning of the term. The adjective formed from archive is archival, the practice of keeping official documents is very old. Archaeologists have discovered archives of hundreds of clay tablets going back to the third and second millennia BC in sites like Ebla, Mari, Amarna, Hattusas, Ugarit and these discoveries have been fundamental to know ancient alphabets, languages, literature, and politics. Archives were well developed by the ancient Chinese, the ancient Greeks, however, they have been lost, since documents written on materials like papyrus and paper deteriorated at a faster pace, unlike their stone tablet counterparts. Archives of churches, kingdoms, and cities from the Middle Ages survive and have kept their official status uninterruptedly till now. They are the tool for historical research on these ages. Modern archival thinking has many roots from the French Revolution, historians, genealogists, lawyers, demographers, filmmakers, and others conduct research at archives. The research process at each archive is unique, and depends upon the institution that houses the archive. While there are kinds of archives, the most recent census of archivists in the United States identifies five major types, academic, business, government, non-profit. There are also four main areas of inquiry involved with archives, material technologies, organizing principles, geographic locations and these areas help to further categorize what kind of archive is being created. Archives in colleges, universities, and other facilities are typically housed within a library. Academic archives exist to preserve history and serve the academic community. Access to the collections in these archives is usually by prior appointment only, users of academic archives can be undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff, scholarly researchers, and the general public
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University of British Columbia
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The University of British Columbia, commonly referred to as UBC, is a public research university with campuses and facilities in British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1908 as the McGill University College of British Columbia and it is British Columbias oldest institution of higher learning and has over 60,000 students at its Vancouver and Okanagan Valley campuses. Most students are enrolled in five faculties, Arts, Science, Applied Science, UBC Faculty of Medicine. UBCs 4.02 km2 Vancouver campus is within the University Endowment Lands, the 2.09 km2 Okanagan campus, acquired in 2005, is in Kelowna. UBCs admission standards is the 2nd most rigorous in Canada with the average of 89. 95% high school GPA for all incoming domestic students in 2015 for the Vancouver Campus. According to the annual rankings compiled by Macleans and U. S. News, in 2015 U. S. News and World Report and Times Higher Education ranked UBC among the 20 best public universities worldwide. With an annual research budget valued at $600 million, UBC funds 8,442 projects as of 2014, the university has also educated three Canadian prime ministers, most recently Justin Trudeau, the current prime minister. One of the largest research libraries in Canada, the UBC Library system has over 9.9 million volumes among its 21 branches, since 1968, UBC is home to TRIUMF, Canadas national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics which houses the worlds largest cyclotron. In 1877, only six years after British Columbia joined Canada, the provincial legislature passed An Act Respecting the University of British Columbia in 1890, but disagreements arose over whether to build the university on Vancouver Island or the mainland. The British Columbia University Act of 1908 formally called a university into being. The president, appointed by the board, was to provide a link between the two bodies and to perform institutional leadership, the Act constituted a twenty-one member senate with Francis Carter-Cotton of Vancouver as Chancellor. Before the University Act, there had been attempts at creating a degree-granting university with help from the Universities of Toronto. Building on an affiliation between Vancouver and Victoria high schools with McGill University, Henry Marshall Tory helped establish the McGill University College of British Columbia. From 1906 to 1915, McGill BC operated as an institution providing the first few years toward a degree at McGill University or elsewhere. The Henry Marshall Tory Medal was established in 1941 by Tory, founding President of the University of Alberta and of the National Research Council of Canada, and a co-founder of Carleton University. In the meantime, appeals were made to the government to revive the legislation for a provincial institution, leading to the University Endowment Act in 1907. In 1910 the Point Grey site was chosen, and the government appointed Dr. Frank Fairchild Wesbrook as President in 1913, on the first day of lectures was September 30,1915, the new independent university absorbed McGill University College. The University of British Columbia awarded its first degrees in 1916, World War I dominated campus life, and the student body was decimated by enlistments for active service, with three hundred UBC students in Company D alone
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Greater Vancouver
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Greater Vancouver, also known as Metro Vancouver, is the metropolitan area with its major urban centre being the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The term Greater Vancouver is roughly coterminous with the area governed by the Metro Vancouver regional district. It is often used to include areas beyond the boundaries of the district but does not generally include wilderness. Usage of the term Greater Vancouver is not consistent, Greater Vancouver occupies the southwest corner of mainland British Columbia. It comprises roughly the half of the Lower Mainland and sits astride the lower reaches of the Fraser River. Thirteen of the thirty most populous municipalities are located in Greater Vancouver. The official land area of the district is 2,877.36 square kilometres and it is the most densely populated region in British Columbia. See Metro Vancouver#Municipalities for a list of municipalities in the region, the University of British Columbia and the University Endowment Lands, both located to the west of the City of Vancouvers limits, are not subject to governance by any municipality. According to the 2001 census,1,986,965 people lived in the metropolitan area, the 2006 Census placed the population at 2,116,581, representing 6. 5% growth since the last census. In 2006, the Greater Vancouver CMA had a population of 2,116,581 living in 870,992 dwellings, the Greater Vancouver Regional District has a land area of 2,877.36 km2 and a population density of 735. 6/km2. In 2011, Metro Vancouver had a population of 2,313,328 living in 949,565 dwellings, the regional district has a land area of 2,882.55 km2 and a population density of 802. 5/km2. The population of Metro Vancouver is of diverse origin, other prominent groups include Filipinos, Koreans, Japanese, Southeast Asian, West Asian, and Latin Americans. British Columbia is Canadas most ethnically diverse province, federally, the electorates in the Greater Vancouver region elect Conservative, New Democratic, and Liberal Members of Parliaments. In 2011, the Liberals were reduced to two seats, both located in Vancouver, however, in the past, Liberal support has been strong in the Lower Mainland. Following the 1993 election, the Liberals held every seat but one in the City of Vancouver, Greater Vancouver, like the rest of British Columbia, is divided between the BC Liberals and the BC NDP. Polling from the 2013 provincial election showed that supporters of the BC Liberals were almost evenly split between federal Liberals and federal Conservatives. Despite this trend, former NDP Premier Ujjal Dosanjh ran federally for the Liberals in the 2004 election, in terms of political geography, Greater Vancouver is not as polarized between urban core and suburban areas as metropolitan areas in other parts of the country are. However, the BC NDP tends to draw support from ridings on the east side of Vancouver, Burnaby, the Tri-Cities
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University of British Columbia Library
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The University of British Columbia Library is the library system of the University of British Columbia. In 2014, UBC Library ranked 22nd among members of the Association of Research Libraries, UBC Library has the largest collection of Asian-language materials in North America and the largest biomedical collection in Western Canada. It is a library for publications of the governments of British Columbia, Canada, Japan. The Librarys collections of special and unique materials include the archives of Canadian author and artist Douglas Coupland, the collection includes documents, books, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, silver, glass, ceramic ware and other artifacts. In October 2015, UBC Library opened its newest facility, Library Preservation and Archives, the building is located at UBC Vancouver’s South Campus and provides 2,280 square metres of high-density collection storage. It can store about 1.6 million volumes and the facility houses a campus-wide records management service. The Asian Library, located in the Asian Centre, houses the largest research collection in Asian languages in North America and its holdings in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Urdu and Indonesian exceed 580,000 volumes. Subject material about Asia in English and other European languages, as well as Asian materials in languages, are kept in Koerner Library. Asia-related law materials are located in the Law Library, monographs in Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Rajasthani, Assamese, Nepali and Tibetan are shelved in the Irving K. The Asian Librarys rare book collection, mainly from the Puban collection, the Chinese collection ranked third in North America in number of volumes at the time of publication of Endymion Wilkinsons Chinese History, A Manual in 2000. UBCs Main Library underwent major renovations beginning in 2002, in phase one, the north wing was demolished and rebuilt. It now houses the bookstacks of the facility, the South Wing was officially opened to the public on February 25,2008, with the heritage core opening in late March 2008. The building is now known as the Irving K, Barber Learning Centre, named in honour of donor Irving K. Barber. Notable features include the first Automated Storage and Retrieval System in Canada, the system increases the amount of storage space available, but has been criticized for preventing browsing. Barber Learning Centre houses the Rare Books and Special Collections and University Archives divisions, the Learning Centre is also home to the Chapman Learning Commons on level three, located in the restored historic core of the old Main Library. Artwork on display around the Learning Centre includes pieces from noted artists such as John Nutter, Kevin DuBois, the Institute for stained glass in Canada has documented the stained glass at the UBC Main Library. UBC Library also serves the Universitys Okanagan campus in Kelowna, British Columbia, in 2014/15, the Okanagan campus Library had 688,000 library visits. Answering more than 17,000 in-person inquiries at their Library Service Desk, the Okanagan Library assumed responsibility for campus writing services in 2014, and launched a new Writing & Research Services unit
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Squamish language
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An archaic historical rendering of the native Sḵwx̱wú7mesh is Sko-ko-mish but this should not be confused with the name of the Skokomish people of Washington state. Squamish is most closely related to the Sechelt, Halkomelem, anthropologists and linguists who have worked on the Squamish language go back to the 1880s. The first collection of words was collected by German anthropologist Franz Boas, during the following decade, anthropologist Charles Hill-Tout collected some Squamish words, sentences and stories. In the 1930s, anthropologist Homer Barnett worked with Jimmy Frank to collect information about traditional Squamish culture, in the 1950s, Dutch linguist Aert H. Kuipers worked on the first comprehensive grammar of the Squamish language, later published as The Squamish Language. In 1968, the British Columbia Language Project undertook more documentation of the Squamish language, randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy, the main collaborators on this project, devised the writing system presently used for Squamish. The Squamish-English bilingual dictionary was published by the University of Washington Press in 2011, in 1990, the Chief and Council of the Squamish people declared Squamish to be the official language of their people, a declaration made to ensure funding for the language and its revitalization. In 2010, the First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Council considered the language to be endangered and nearly extinct. In 2011, the language was being using the Where Are Your Keys. Technique, and a Squamish–English dictionary was completed in 2011. A Squamish festival was scheduled for April 22,2013, with two fluent elders, aiming to inspire more efforts to keep the language alive, so far 15 families in the Squamish area are part of the program. The goal is to revive the language by trying to have it used every day at home — getting the parents on board, in 2014, a Squamish-language program was made available at Capilano University. The consonant phonemes of Squamish, first in IPA and then in the Squamish orthography, There are also four vowel phonemes, /a/, /i/, /u/, Squamish Nation History of Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh longshoremen, 1863–1963 Bar-el, Leora. Verbal Plurality and Adverbial Quantification, A Case Study of Skwxú7mesh, MA thesis, University of British Columbia. Ph. D. dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Bar-el, Leora, Henry Davis, and Lisa Matthewson. Proceedings of the 35th NELS Conference, Bar-el, Leora, Peter Jacobs, and Martina Wiltschko. A Number Feature in Squamish Salish, Proceedings of WCCFL20, Karine Megerdoomian and Leora Bar-el. Bar-el, Leora, and Linda T. Watt, Bar-el, Leora, and Linda T. Watt. S. Gessner, S. Oh, and K. Shiobara, burton, Strang, Henry Davis, Peter Jacobs, Linda Tamburri Watt, and Martina Wiltschko
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University of British Columbia Okanagan
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The University of British Columbias Okanagan Campus is a campus of the University of British Columbia, located in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Home to approximately 8,410 undergraduate and graduate students, the 209 hectares Kelowna campus is located in the interior of the province, originally degrees were awarded in partnership with other universities, but by 1995, the university college began granting degrees in its own name. In the late 1990s, Okanagan University College began lobbying efforts to gain university status. In December 2002 the British Columbia Progress Board submitted a report to the provincial government, the board, chaired by then University of British Columbia president Martha Piper, recommended that the province extend “the mandate of an existing provincial University to Kelowna…”. In March 2004, BC Premier Gordon Campbell and the UBC President Martha Piper held a press conference, Okanagan University College’s university operations would be consolidated at its North Kelowna Campus and would come under the control of the University of British Columbia. The other programs and campuses of Okanagan University College would form a new community college, which would later take on the name Okanagan College. At the same time, they share a common board of governors, with strong representation from each region. ”As of December 2014, UBCs Okanagan campus is represented on the UBC Board of Governors by Jeffrey Krupa, Dr. Michael Treschow. UBC’s Okanagan campus offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs. There are more than 63 undergraduate programs in Arts, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Human Kinetics, Management, Media, Medicine, Nursing, the smaller size of the university offers a unique learning and research environment. As of 2011 UBCs Okanagan campus underwent a rapid CA$450 million expansion, the University Centre, was completed in 2009. The $31.5 million Charles E. Fipke Centre for Innovative Research is a multi-purpose academic and research facility. It provided 70,000 square feet of space for teaching and research, including research labs, classrooms and teaching labs, offices, student commons, lecture theatre, the building also achieved Five Green Globes and LEED Platinum standards for sustainability using geo-exchange technology. Arts and Sciences building and Engineering and management building were completed in 2011 as well, the most recently completed building is the medical school building which was completed by end of the year 2011. The second Arts and Science building includes a new animal testing facility. In addition, there are various student residences in various stages of construction, all construction was originally set to be complete by September 2010, later projected to be completed about a year and a half past that date. The expansion of UBC Faculty of Medicine created a new distributed medical site, the program is located in the Kelowna General Hospital. The Southern Medical Program opened 32 seats for its first cohort of students at UBC Okanagan on August 29,2011. Along with the expansion of the campus, the campus Collegia program has gained national attention as a home-away-from-home for its large commuter population
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Robson Square
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Robson Square is a landmark civic centre and public plaza, located in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the site of the Provincial Law Courts, UBC Robson Square, government office buildings, the British Columbia Centre was a development proposal slated to be completed by 1975. At 208 metres it would have been the tallest skyscraper in the city, bennetts Social Credit government in 1972, the plan was scrapped just as the construction phase was about to begin. The reconceptualization Erickson came up with was of a skyscraper laid on its side, Erickson biographer Nicholas Olsberg describes the design as follows, Arthur came in and said This wont be a corporate monument. Lets turn it on its side and let people walk all over it, and he anchored it in such a way with the courts — the law — at one end and the museum — the arts — at the other. And underneath it all, the government offices quietly supporting their people, the new development was completed between 1979 and 1983, encompassing three city blocks and providing 1,300,000 square feet of space. The main component is the glass-covered Law Courts, which houses 35 courtrooms in the southern block. It is 42 metres in height, and the roof has a size of 420 by 115 feet, is supported by a steel space frame structure. The central block contains provincial government offices and, more recently, portions of the University of British Columbias downtown satellite campus, UBC Robson Square, above, three cascading waterfalls throughout the complex provide natural air conditioning with 850,000 US gallons of water. An outdoor skating rink is located at the level that extends below Robson Street and connects to the northern block with the Vancouver Art Gallery. Typical of Ericksons designs, Robson Square is constructed out of concrete. In addition to the features are trees and other flora as well as gradually inclining stairs with an integrated ramp. The open design allows for relatively unobstructed natural light and fresh air, landscaping on the project was designed by Cornelia Oberlander. The complex was completed in three stages at a cost of $139 million, as of November 23,2009, Robson Square has been reopened following a multimillion-dollar reconstruction project. Its reopening can be attributed to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler. Robson Square provides the public outdoor skating rink in Vancouver--and is free to use. The rink area is used in the months for various public events including Ballroom & Salsa dancing and is the hub for Vancouvers street-dance scene. As noted above, the rink is open in the winter, admission is free
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Peter A. Allard School of Law
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The Peter A. Allard School of Law is the law school of the University of British Columbia. It offers a three-year Juris Doctor program and the degrees of Master of Laws, Master of Laws Common Law. Among other things, the faculty has courses emphasizing Pacific Rim issues, business law, tax law, environmental and natural law, indigenous law. It was renamed from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in 2015 to honor a $30M gift from Peter Allard, an alumnus, which followed a 2011 gift from him of about $12M. UBC offered lectures in law from 1920, but the faculty of law was established in 1945. Because it lacked adequate infrastructure, the law school used army huts from World War II until a permanent structure was built in 1951 and it was replaced by Allard Hall in 2009. The school was ranked 3rd in Canada and 31st in the world in the 2016 QS World University Rankings of law schools and it was fifth among Canadian law schools in Macleans 2013 rankings. The school is located at the University of British Columbias campus near Vancouver, in 2011 it moved out of its former building, a brutalist-style building with malfunctioning heating and cooling and into a new building that had recently been completed. The building cost around $56M, the university used $21M of its own funds, the Allard Prize was established in 2012 and was initially funded by part of the 2011 gift from Allard and further funded by a subsequent $30M donation by Allard in 2015. It is one of the worlds largest prizes dedicated to the fight against corruption, one Honourable Mention recipient was nominated posthumously after being tortured and dying in a Russian prison. UBC Law Review The University of British Columbia Law Review is the official law review and is published by the UBC Law Review Society. It was first published in 1949 as a collection of essays entitled the UBC Legal Notes. In 1959, it became the UBC Law Review. It was incorporated as a society in 1966. The UBC Law Review is a top ranking scholarly publication in Canada and globally, alongside the University of Toronto Law Journal, the TSL is published by students at the school. Annual Review of Insolvency Law The only Canadian peer-reviewed journal dedicated to insolvency and bankruptcy law and this annual publication offers articles by scholars and practitioners on personal and commercial insolvency law. Canadian Journal of Family Law First published in 1978, the Canadian Journal of Family Law is Canadas first family law journal, the journal is a biannual interdisciplinary journal that publishes both English and French academic articles on a broad range of issues related to family law. The journal is reviewed by an advisory board consisting of legal professionals
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Liu Institute for Global Issues
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The Liu Institute for Global Issues is an organization devoted to research at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Founded by Professor Ivan Head in 1998, the institute opened its doors in 2000. The Liu Institute is named after Dr and its current focus embraces issues related to Development, Environment, Conflict and Emerging Forms of Politics. The Liu Institute conducts research and seminars in a space on the UBC campus in Vancouver. Designed by Architectura in collaboration with renowned architect Arthur Erickson, the Liu building sits at the edge of a lush second-growth forest that provides cooling shade and beautiful views. The structure’s design incorporates a number of features aimed at maximizing use of recycled and salvaged materials, minimizing energy and water consumption. Official website Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada profile
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UBC Faculty of Medicine
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The UBC Faculty of Medicine is the medical school of the University of British Columbia, and is one of 17 medical schools in Canada and the only one in the province of British Columbia. It is Canadas second-largest medical school and seventh-largest in North America, the school had 677 full-time faculty members,6,059 clinical faculty members,1,146 MD undergraduate students, and 1,606 graduate students in 2013-14. It is ranked as the 3rd best medical program in Canada, the University of British Columbia founded a medical school in 1950. The school is based in Vancouver, two new undergraduate medical campuses were established at the University of Victoria in Victoria and the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George that opened in 2004. A fourth medical campus was established at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna in 2012, students at all of these campuses receive clinical training at hospitals and other health facilities throughout the province. Qualities of well-roundedness, motivation, maturity, adaptability, and genuine concern are valued and this usually comes from looking for concrete evidence in the application, and holistically after the interview. The program involves strong independent, and group collaboration with students, faculty and other health professionals in-province. In addition, upon completion of medical school, all students will enter their own specialization. The current cycle saw 2485 applications received for the 288 spots of the medical program, the average adjusted GPA of the 660 selected interviewers was 88. 30%. The minimum total score to qualify for the interview for BC applicants was 52. 91/100. 579 BC applicants received the interview while 81 out-of-province applicants received the interview, scores are only shown to those not invited for interview or not invited for final acceptance to the program. While scores are intended to provide feedback and encouragement to applicants. Due to standardization of scores, they are not supposed to be used for analysis or as a cake recipe towards admission, every applicants situation. UBC admits one of the largest incoming class of students in Canada – annually at 288. Preference is given to residents of British Columbia, but up to 29 seats are reserved each year for out-of-province applicants, like other medical schools in Canada, UBC does not have a preference over a candidates area of studies, and accepted students come from all backgrounds. A minimum of 90 university credits is required, a minimum average of 75% is required for BC residents, while a minimum average of 85% is required for out-of-province applicants. However, the MD Admissions Office will remove up to 30 credits of an applicants lowest academic year, applicants no longer must complete 6 credits each of Biology, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Biochemistry. In late January 2016, UBC Senate approved the plan of removing science prerequisites for MD Admissions, the requirement for 6 credits of English is still required
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UBC Sauder School of Business
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The UBC Sauder School of Business is a faculty at the University of British Columbia. The faculty is located in Vancouver on UBC’s Point Grey campus and has a teaching facility at UBC Robson Square downtown. UBC Sauder is accredited by both AACSB and EQUIS, as a result of a donation from Vancouver business philanthropist Robert H. Lee to support graduate-level education, the Robert H. Lee Graduate School was established at UBC Sauder opened in 2006. As of 2012, the UBC Sauder School of Business completed a renovation to its Henry Angus Building on the UBC campus. The current Dean is Robert Helsley, the part-time MBA, covering the same material as the full-time MBA, is 28 months in length, with classes delivered every two to three weekends at the UBC Point Grey campus. MBA applicants typically have a degree, several years of work experience. UBC Sauders MBA program offers specialized career tracks combined with practical experience, the program focuses on experimental learning and global immersion. The curriculum, built around experiential learning, builds on five themes, creativity, decision-making, ethics and sustainability, global issues and macroeconomics, UBC Sauder is consistently ranked among the top 100 business schools by organizations such as the Financial Times and The Economist. The MBA program was indexed as the 16th best in North America in the 2015 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report, the UBC IMBA program has been specially adapted for the Chinese and Asian markets, and is taught entirely in English by UBC Sauder School of Business professors. The program emphasizes learning through lectures, case studies, problem-based learning. IMBA students also conclude their program with the Capstone, the Masters of Management is a 9-month pre-experience program, designed for recent graduates looking to complement their bachelors degree in non-business disciplines. The MM program provides students with the chance to learn topics such as reporting, organizational behaviour. The Masters of Management has been recognized as one of the top 50 Masters of Management degrees in the world by the 2014 Financial Times, UBC Sauders Bachelor of Commerce offers ten different career tracks to provide students the ability to specialize and customize their degrees. Students can further choose within their career tracks to focus on entrepreneurship, e-commerce, although the minimum required grade point average is 84%, the entering class of 2017 had a mean GPA of 92%. In 2015, the rate was approximately 6%. For comparison, Ivy Leagues Cornell Universitys admission rate was 12. 9% in Fall 2014, in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016-2017, UBC Sauder is ranked 1st in Canada and 19th globally for business and economics studies. Students spend two years at one of three Sciences Po campuses in France, each of which is devoted to a region of the world. After two years, students matriculate at UBC, graduates of the program are guaranteed admission to a Sciences Po graduate program
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Green College, University of British Columbia
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Green College is a centre for interdisciplinary scholarship and a community of scholars at the University of British Columbia founded by Cecil Howard Green and Ida Green. Green College is one of three graduate residential colleges in Canada, the other two being St. Johns College, University of British Columbia and Massey College at the University of Toronto. Green College has formal ties with institutions as well as with Green Templeton College, Oxford, which similarly owes its inception to the generosity of Cecil H. Green. The College is located at the North end of the UBC campus, near the Faculty of Law, Museum of Anthropology, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Cecil Green Park House is an oceanfront mansion adjoining the College property. Dining together is an part of the Green College experience. The college is home to the Green College Dining Society which provides ten meals a week to residents and guests in Graham Houses Great Hall. Green College was established in 1993 thanks to a $7 million gift by Cecil H. Green and Ida Green and this gift provided a home to the Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professorship program, launched by the Greens in 1972. The facilities of the college campus existed prior to the founding of the college, in 1935, the Grand Campus Washout eroded a deep ravine across the east end of the grounds. After several days of erosion, the Gardeners shed collapsed into the ravine, afterwards, the gully was filled with debris from a nearby landslide. The landslide area can be identified today by the trees on the fill area. The following year the campus system was constructed, terminating in a spiral drain at the southwest end of the Cecil Green Park Road parking lot associated with the college. Two more minor erosion occurred in the summer of 1995 and 1997 when the drainage system overloaded and flooded the parking lot. A berm was constructed to prevent a recurrence of these events, slope stability and controlling further erosion continues to be a significant issue for all of the north end of campus including the college grounds. In November,1997, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting was held in Vancouver, Great controversy arose when politicians instructed RCMP officers to use force and pepper spray against non-violent protesters. Green College was located near the Museum of Anthropology, directly adjacent to the motorcade route to the APEC venue there. Green College resident and Law student Craig Jones was arrested and held for 14 hours when he displayed signs reading simply Free Speech, Democracy, Green College residents displayed protest banners from the windows and walls of the College. Green College residents were among those doused by pepper spray by the RCMP, also, starting six months before the APEC summit, Green College provided event space and logistical support for an APEC-University Forum, to discuss both sides of issues raised. On 28 July 2006, residents received a new contract terms that many residents found objectionable
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St. John's College, University of British Columbia
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St. Johns College is one of two residential colleges at the University of British Columbia, the other being Green College. It provides a community for students and postdoctoral researchers, with an international focus. The college consists of a community of 160 graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, visiting scholars and professors. The College is located at the West end of the UBC campus, aside from taking up residence at St. Johns, residential membership entails active involvement in the social and academic aspects of College life. Involvement takes the form of participation on social and academic committees. Dining together is an part of the St. Johns College experience. The college is home to the Dining Society which provides meals five days a week to residents and guests, fellows regularly organize talks and forums on current events around the globe, building upon the College’s international diversity as well as UBC’s global scholarly expertise. A diverse array of resident groups and committees are active at the college, associations include, Academic Committee, Arts Committee, Environment Committee, Outreach Committee, Choir, Sports Committee as well as Chinese, French and German conversation groups. St. Johns College is located on the west end of UBCs Point Grey campus, bordering the Marine Drive residences and across from Wreck Beach. In addition to residences, social rooms and kitchens for residents, the college also provides catering to events held at the college. The college is a unit of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, the head of the college is the College Principal who is responsible to the Dean of Graduate Studies. Management of the college is guided through an Advisory Board consisting of faculty, community leaders, college residents, Academic components of the college are managed through a variety of joint faculty – resident committees. St. Johns College - UBC was founded by alumni of St. Johns University, Shanghai, to keep the schools traditions alive, SJU alumni funded three academic institutions around the world bearing the name of St. Johns. They established St. Johns University in Taiwan in 1967 and St. Johns College UBC in 1997, dr. Mathabo Tsepa—High Commissioner of Lesotho to Canada Official website The website of a former resident, http, //martin. swift. is/sjc/
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University of British Columbia Press
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The University of British Columbia Press is a university press that is part of the University of British Columbia. The Press is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and has offices in Kelowna, British Columbia. UBC Press is primarily a social sciences publisher and it publishes books of original scholarship that draws on and reflects current research
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Institute of Asian Research
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The Institute has played a central role in building UBCs excellence in research, teaching and community liaison in matters pertaining to Asia. The Institute has pursued a rich and productive research agenda on many aspects of the experience in Asia. The Institutes Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs program is a global public policy program with particular expertise in Asia Pacific. The program provides policy makers and future leaders with multidisciplinary policy analysis and design skills and subject-specific expertise in development, sustainability and these centres bundle the research activities on their respective countries/regions across the campus of the University of British Columbia. The Institute also hosts the Program on Inner Asia, the The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhism and Contemporary Society, faculty members at the Institute of Asian Research include some of the foremost experts on their area and region of expertise. Asia Pacific Memo features accessible scholarly knowledge about contemporary Asia and its a communications initiative led by the Institute of Asian Research at The University of British Columbia. Distributed twice-weekly, it features 350 word essays or video interviews, as of November 2011, more than 120 Memos have been published. Each edition is delivered by email to over 2,500 subscribers, in addition, Asia Pacific Memo is active on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. The Institute is housed in the purpose-built C. K. Choi Building in the northwest quadrant of the UBC campus, designed by Matsuzaki Wright Architects of Vancouver, B. C. and completed in 1995, the building has been recognized for its leading-edge sustainable design. The building is named after Dr. Cheung-Kok Choi, a businessman and philanthropist in China, Hong Kong and Canada, the building houses the Institutes five research centres which focus on China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and India and South Asia. The daringly innovative architecture integrates cultural expression, interior and exterior architectural presence, together with environmental features, official website Master of Arts Asia Pacific Policy Studies, UBC Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, UBC Asia Pacific Memo Sustain UBC - C. K. Choi Building evaluation Cascadia Building Council Cornelia Oberlander - landscape and building features
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Vancouver School of Economics
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The Vancouver School of Economics is a school of the University of British Columbia located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The school consistently ranks as one of the top 25 in the world, the school exhibits high research activity and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees. 16th in the world by the Times Higher Education ranking for the social sciences category, 23rd in the world by Tilburg University based on research contribution from 2007-2011. 24th in the world by the Academy Ranking of World Universities for the category in 2010. 24th in the world from 1990-2000 period by Dr. Tom Coupe, 25th in the world as of June 2012 by the Research Papers in Economics. 25th in the world by the Tilburg University Top 100 Worldwide Economics Schools Research Ranking based on research contribution 2007-2011, the schools faculty have won 5 of the 11 John Rae Prizes given by the Canadian Economics Association. This prize is awarded to the Canadian economist with the best recent research, the School manages the British Columbia Inter-University Research Data Centre. The RDC provides access, for approved projects, to selected confidential Statistics Canada micro-level data, admittance to an academic program in economics at UBC is highly competitive. Academic programs in economics in UBCs Faculty of Arts are all administrated by the Vancouver School of Economics, undergraduate BA programs –1,042 students. Additionally, several hundred students take undergraduate BA courses in each term as general electives. Undergraduate BIE program –84 students for the year of the program. Graduate MA program –45 students in the 2013/14 academic year Graduate PhD program –67 students in the 2013/14 academic year, the VSE has many reputable faculty and alumni, including, Nobel Prize-winning economist, Robert Mundell, who studied economics as an undergraduate at UBC. Mundell received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999 for his work in monetary dynamics. Mundell laid the groundwork for the introduction of the euro through this work, Mundell is also known for the Mundell–Fleming model and Mundell–Tobin effect. Dominic Barton is the managing director and head of McKinsey & Company. Graduating with a degree in economics at UBC in 1984. He was previously McKinsey’s chairman in Asia from 2004–2009, based in Shanghai, Barton is an established author in topics of financial services and economic development in Asia. He is also a trustee of the Rhodes Trust and the Brookings Institution, james Brander graduated from UBC in 1975 with a degree in economics
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Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
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Barber Learning Centre is a facility at the Vancouver campus of the University of British Columbia. The Learning Centre is built around the core of the 1925 UBC Main Library. The Centre is named for Irving, K. Barber, philanthropist and a graduate of UBC. Started in 2006, the goal of the program is to promote access to British Columbias historical resources. Webcasts of lectures are archived and accessible through the Multimedia Repository, the Chapman Learning Commons, in a refurbished central section of the Learning Centre, provides space for group work as well as seating for individual study
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CITR-FM
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Its transmitter is also located on campus. The stations mandate is to provide programming that is alternative to the played on mainstream radio. Broadcasting at FM101.9, its signal encompasses most of the Vancouver Metropolitan Area, CiTR launched a podcast service in September 2006, allowing listeners to access past shows online. CITR is a member of the National Campus and Community Radio Association, the NCRC is an annual national gathering of community-oriented radio broadcasters who provide alternative radio to a diverse audience. It has been offered every summer since 1981, and it is one of the activities of the NCRA/ANREC. In 1937, Ozzie Durkin, Dorwin Baird, Victor Freeman, then, in 1938 UBC Radio became an official club on campus. In 1942, UBC Radio becomes RADSOC and continues to produce programming for CJOR, CKWX-AM, CBR. By 1947, UBC Radio had earned a place in the facilities in UBCs Brock Hall. In 1949, the budding radio coming out of RADSOC was put on hold after overspending, the members of RADSOC returned to their station in the fall to discover the doors locked. President Don Cunliffe reinstated RADSOC with no budget and the society continued to broadcast one hour daily despite their financial hardship, a resilient RADSOC partnered with CKWX to operate a twenty-two week long school for commercial radio. Closed-circuit broadcasts to begin, and the first full commercials are run on UBC Radio. Nearly twenty years later, in 1969, RADSOC moved into state of the art broadcasting facilities in the newly completed Student Union Building, true to spirit, CYVR was shut down by the UBC Alma Matter Society for six months for operating without a licence. CYVR had applied for a licence in compliance with CRTC regulations, when the licence was approved, UBC Radio became Thunderbird Radio, CiTR. Then, in 1975, CiTR beagn broadcasting at 101.9 MHz, by 1981, CiTR had become an AMS service organization and began to work with the community both on and off campus for the first time since the 1940s. CiTR joined the National Campus Radio Organization, which became the NCRA. On April 1,1982, CiTR broadcast for the first time at 101.9 FM after receiving approval from the CTRC for their Low Power FM licence the previous September, the first song played was Dancing in the Streets by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. Discorder hit the streets in 1983, in 1985, CiTR proposes a unique licensing plan using a directional radio antenna to allow the use of 101.9 MHz simultaneously in Vancouver and Victoria. In that same year, Discorder was chosen by Seattles Rocket Magazine as one of the Top 20 Publications in the World, subsequently, in 1988, Discorder was a finalist in the Western Canadian Magazine Awards competition for both Magazine of the Year and Cover of the Year
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UBC Thunderbirds
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The UBC Thunderbirds are the athletic teams that represent the University of British Columbia in the University Endowment Lands just outside the city limits of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In Canadian intercollegiate competition, the Thunderbirds are the most successful athletic program both regionally in the Canada West Universities Athletic Association, and nationally in U Sports. On a national level, the team has won the Vanier Cup championship four times, in 1982,1986,1997 and, most recently, the team has also lost twice in the title game, in 1978 and 1987. The Thunderbirds program has yielded three Hec Crighton Trophywinners, Jordan Gagner in 1987, Mark Nohra in 1997, and. Hiscott recognized student Terry McKaig, a collegiate player and national team member. Since 1997, McKaig has been the force behind the T-Birds with support. The Thunderbirds compete in the United States as the only Canadian member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. In 2001, the reached a new level as the New York Mets made Derran Watts the first ever Thunderbird to be drafted. Since then nine more Thunderbirds have been drafted including 2007 World Series starter Jeff Francis, t-bird baseball successes include their trip to the 2006 NAIA World Series. In 1974, the members of the Thunderbirds hockey team travelled to China to help share hockey skills to Chinese players, mens rugby is one of the oldest varsity sports at UBC. The varsity XV now competes against the University of Victoria in a two-game and they also play a two-game, combined score series against the University of California for the World Cup trophy. The varsity XV is coached by Spence McTavish, and assistant coach Rod Holloway, besides being a finalist in 1997, the team became the first Canadian University program to win the USA Ultimate College National Championship in 2008 held in Boulder, Colorado. Previously coached by Richard Schick since the 2003-2004 season, Kerry MacDonald took over the helm of the volleyball program following the end of the 2015-2016 campaign. S. A pep song with the same name Hail UBC, written by Steve Chatman, was adopted in 2011, the lyrics go, Hail to the Thunderbirds. Hail UBC. Thunder and lightning — Onward to victory. Hail to the Blue-and-Gold, Hail UBC. U, B, C forever — Onward to victory. In 2005, they applied to members of the principal U. S. college sports governing body. They are not the first Canadian school to try to join the NCAA, in 2000, local rival Simon Fraser, then exclusively an NAIA member, at the time, the NCAAs constitution prohibited non-U. S. UBC, on the hand, was reportedly interested in joining Division I
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UBC Okanagan Heat
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The UBC Okanagan Heat are the athletic teams that represent University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. The Heat have received conditional membership in Canada West for the 2010-11 season and they will participate in mens and womens volleyball and mens and womens basketball. They will continue membership in U Sports for mens and womens soccer, the UBCO mens basketball team won its first ever mens basketball conference game on November 25,2011, they defeated the University of Regina 78-76. The UBCO mens volleyball team made the post-season in their first season in Canada West during the 2011-12 season - a huge feat for a team during their first year of competition
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Shrum Bowl
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The Shrum Bowl is a college rivalry game played between the gridiron football teams of the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds and the Simon Fraser University Clan. The game is named after Gordon Shrum who was a professor and later a Dean at UBC from 1925 to 1961 and it is a cross-town rivalry with UBC being located in Vancouver, British Columbia, and SFU located approximately 30 kilometres away in Burnaby, British Columbia. The Simon Fraser Clan are the current champions and also lead in the series with an record of 17-15-1. In the 44-year history of the game, the Shrum Bowl has been played 33 times, the first ever Shrum Bowl game was played on October 16,1967 at Empire Stadium and it was also the first ever football game to be played between the two schools. In the first five years it was played, SFU typically dominated the games, posting a 4-0-1 record and outscoring UBC 168-32. While all games were played on ground at Empire stadium, home to the BC Lions. Because of the heavily skewed losses, declining fan interest, and the CWUAAs objections to SFU granting aid to student athletes, the games were temporarily discontinued. Shrum Bowl VI was played at Empire Stadium and under Canadian rules for the first time, after UBC argued that since the game was to be played on Canadian soil, it should be played as such. With the Thunderbirds as national championship contenders and games being played under their rules, UBC would win four of the next five games, including the 1982 game that was played following the programs first Vanier Cup victory. Despite the popularity of the games, which had 9000 fans witness the 1982 edition, on January 13,1987, history repeated itself as UBC and SFU jointly announced that the Shrum Bowl would be revived with a five-year commitment from the CIAU. The agreement would see UBC having a bye-week on the weekend of September for five years. The 11th Shrum Bowl would be played at a home stadium for the first time in the games history, at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby. In 1985, Dr. Gordon Shrum died during the games second hiatus, but his son spoke at the January press conference stating that nothing would have made his father happier than to have this game revived. UBC won the 1987 and 1988 games en route to their first ever lead in the series, 6-5-1, including a winning streak. The games were now being played at alternating locations as the 1988 game was played at UBCs Thunderbird Stadium with 8,600 in attendance, the 1991 game drew the largest crowd of that era with an estimated 10,500 showing up to a temporarily expanded Swangard Stadium. The Shrum Bowl was played on the weekend of September from 1987 to 1993 as was originally intended. In 1993, UBC played two opponents in one week, which proved to be extremely strenuous on the players and coaches, since the team was not prepared to do that again, the September 10,1994 match-up was cancelled. The Shrum Bowl resumed play in 1995 under a new stipulation, every time UBC hosts, while SFU opposed the new rule, since the game was their first of the season and had to practice with different rules, both schools were simply satisfied that the game was back
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The Ubyssey
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The Ubyssey is the University of British Columbias official, independent student-run paper and is published every Tuesday. Founded in 1918, The Ubyssey is the most-read student-run paper in Canada, other notable alumni include cartoonist Arn Saba, journalist and author Katherine Monk, and photographers Jeff Wall and Richard Lam. The Ubyssey is an independent publication funded by a $6.41 annual fee, the staff functions as a collective, current UBC students who have contributed to the paper and attend staff meetings are eligible to become staff members. The staff elects the full-time editors on an annual basis, the Ubysseys headquarters are located on the second floor of the AMS Student Nest, the student union building at UBC, in room 2208. Their offices are open to UBC students from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m. Monday to Friday during the school year, the Ubyssey is primarily web-based, but regular issues of the print edition appear once a week from September to April. Publishing during the term varies. In 2016 one print issue was produced per month, as well as two in August, but summer editions were not published in some years, the Ubyssey also maintains a strong online presence with web-only news and video content published through its website. The paper runs several recurring special issues, the Ubyssey produces a magazine in early September, called the Guide to UBC, to introduce incoming students to on-campus life and culture. The frequency of publication has varied historically, the paper was published four times a week in 1947, but this only lasted one year. The first issue of The Ubyssey was printed on October 17,1918 and it also spoke out against fraternity hazing, which was banned on campus in 1924, and racist policies at some fraternities were exposed in the paper by Allan Fotheringham in the 1950s. In 1955 The Ubyssey was ranked the student publication with the most freedom, pappert was then the faculty advisor with direct editorial control over the student newspaper at Assumption College in Windsor, which had been ranked bottom in that survey. Papperts response was that “The Ubyssey is the vilest rag you can imagine and is the best argument for censorship that could be produced. ”The Ubyssey embraced Papperts remarks, irreverence and controversy have indeed been part of The Ubysseys history. In 1959 the entire staff was fired by the Alma Mater Society when a photo was published during the Easter period showing a UBC student crucified on a totem pole, the last issue of the fall term satirizes campus issues and news stories. The spoof issue, published closest to April 1 spoofs another publication, recent examples included The Grope and Flail, The Georgian Taint, Sports Inundated, and a nude calendar spoofing a fundraising effort by the UBC mens rugby team. Although The Ubyssey was at length from the Alma Mater Society, it was still part of. At the same time, the AMS was forced to spend money to fight lawsuits on behalf of an outlet from which it was continually fending off criticism. The controversies came to a head when the annual issue was published on March 30,1994. ”The Ufeces” was a self-parody pushing the newspaper staffs own positions to extremes and this proved the final straw, and the AMS council passed a motion to give itself the sole power to choose the papers editor-in-chief, who would then select all other editors
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Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
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The Centre hosts numerous public education programs in marine related science. The centre is housed in the building used as the western terminus of the British Empires worldwide undersea cable called the All Red Line. Originally the site of the Pacific Cable Board Cable Station, which served as the terminus of the trans-Pacific telegraph cable linking Canada to Fanning Island. The telegraph cable operated from 1901 to 1959
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British Columbia Children's Hospital
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British Columbia Childrens Hospital is a medical facility located in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority. It specializes in care for patients from birth to age 16. It is also a teaching and research facility for childrens medicine, the hospital also operates the Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, which provides specialized services to children and youth with developmental disabilities aged birth to 19. The hospital is adjacent to the B. C, previously, the two were officially a single organization and were known as the Childrens & Womens Health Centre of British Columbia. Working with the hospital and the community, the BC Childrens Hospital Foundation raises funds to support, the Foundation provides funding to B. C. Children’s Hospitals roots go back to the establishment of a fund for crippled children by the B. C, in 1928, Vancouver’s Crippled Children’s Hospital admitted its first patient at its Hudson Street location. In 1933, a new Crippled Children’s Hospital opened on West 59th Avenue, in 1947, it was renamed Children’s Hospital to exemplify the growing awareness that children are not defined by their illnesses. Construction was completed in 1982 at a cost of $60 million, the 29,730 square-metre facility housed 250 acute care beds, an adolescent unit, a modern isolation facility, a rehabilitation unit, a 10-bed psychiatric unit and a 60-bed special care nursery. In 1985, the Children’s Variety Research Centre opened, showing the importance placed on medical research. In 2002, the Medical Day Unit was expanded from four to twelve beds, in 2003, a $28 million expansion saw the opening of a new Ambulatory Care Building, for the increasing numbers of patients not needing to stay overnight. The building tripled the number of rooms available on site for patients and staff. The architects state that the building is nearly 40% more efficient than the National Energy Code called for when it was built, the project also involved the nearby B. C. Womens Hospital & Health Centres new Maternity and Ambulatory Program Clinics, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, in 2005, two inpatient units were upgraded and modernized in a $6. 9-million project. In 2007, the unit was redeveloped and renamed the Djavad Mowafaghian Wing. In 2007, a new $19-million Mental Health Building opened and it was the first freestanding facility of its kind dedicated to youth mental health in Canada. The modernized 4-story facility serves children and adolescents with mental health challenges from all across the province. Services such as emergency care, long term care, an outreach program, as well as a significant area for assessment. In 2008, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit was renovated in a $4. 4-million project to enhance family and staff areas, the British Columbia Ministry of Health Services also provided $2
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Corpus Christi College (Vancouver)
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Corpus Christi College is a transfer oriented academic college, located immediately adjacent to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Vancouver campus is located in the University Endowment Lands on Point Grey, the colleges claims include the high percentage of students involved in community service, the small class sizes, and the ability to take fully credited courses at UBC. Marks College, Vancouver University Endowment Lands Regent College List of universities in British Columbia Higher education in British Columbia William C, gibson Wesbrook & His University George Woodcock & Tim Fitzharris. The University of British Columbia – A Souvenir, Corpus Christi College website Corpus Christi College Facebook The University of British Columbia Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada Profile
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Kelowna General Hospital
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Kelowna General Hospital is a large medical facility located in Kelowna, British Columbia and offers medical care in the Central Okanagan. In British Columbia, Kelowna General is the hospital outside the Lower Mainland or Vancouver Island that performs angioplasty or cardiac surgery. It is one of the largest hospitals in Western Canada with more than 700 beds, Interior Health is responsible for the operations of the hospital. Kelowna General Hospital originally opened on August 2,1908 with 19 beds on the land that was donated by Kelowna Land & Orchard Company and this building remained until 1940 when a new hospital building was constructed. The 72-year-old Pandosy Building was demolished in Summer 2012 to make way for a cardiac clinic, in 1969, the five storey Strathcona building was constructed, followed by the five storey Royal Building in 1992. Construction of the new six storey Centennial Tower began in 2008, part of an $800 million capital investment in care for the Central. It was completed on May 27,2012, plans to expand Kelowna General Hospital were approved in 2007 to support growing population in the region. Various facilities upgrade and modernization 34,000 square foot Clinical Academic Campus Building, six-storey 187,000 square feet Centennial Patient Care Tower with new rooftop helipad and 30,000 square feet emergency department is now complete. Three-storey 84,470 square feet East Pandosy Clinical Support Building 139,590 square feet Interior Heart, with 15 operating rooms, it is now allowing heart surgeries to take place in the interior of BC for the first time. It is the province’s fifth cardiac critical care center, scheduled completion of this project, and renovation of the Strathcona Building, is 2017
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Providence Health Care (Vancouver)
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Providence Health Care is a care provider that operates seven facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Providence Health Care was formed through the consolidation of CHARA Health Care Society, Holy Family Hospital, Providence Health Care became a single legal entity on March 31,2000. The president of Providence sits on the team of Vancouver Coastal Health. In October 2008, Providence Health Care was named one of BCs Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc. which was announced by The Vancouver Sun, The Province and the Victoria Times-Colonist. St. Pauls Hospital, a care, academic and research hospital with over 500 acute care beds located in downtown Vancouver. Located in South Vancouver, offers 76 inpatient beds, a range of outpatient rehab services and 142 residential care beds, youville Residence, a multi-level care facility that is home to 84 residents St John Hospice, 12-bed facility for the care of the terminally ill. It opened in December 2005 as the first hospice on Vancouver’s Westside, Providence Health Care - Official site
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Regent College
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Not affiliated with a particular religious denomination, Regent College is a transdenominational evangelical protestant institution in its general outlook. The schools stated mission is to cultivate intelligent, vigorous, and joyful commitment to Jesus Christ, His church, about 500 students are enrolled in full- or part-time studies. In any given year, one-third to one-half of students are Canadian, another one-quarter to one-third are American, Chinese students make up a considerable proportion of the latter group, whether from the Mainland, Taiwan, or the Chinese diaspora. Hong Kong is home to more Regent alumni/ae than any city in the world after Vancouver. Regent was established in 1968 to provide theological education to the laity. After the first summer school class, the graduate Diploma of Christian Studies began, affiliation with UBC followed in 1975, and accreditation by the Association of Theological Schools in 1985. The last comprehensive evaluation occurred in 2010, the principals and presidents of the college have been Dr. James M. Houston, Dr. Carl Armerding, Dr. Walter Wright, Jr. and outgoing president Dr. Rod Wilson. Dr. Jeffrey P. Greenman began his term as the president on February 1,2015. Dr. Greenman is the first alumnus of Regent College to become president, Regent initially rented rooms in various buildings at UBC, including St. Andrews Hall and Vancouver School of Theology, and occupyied two fraternity houses on Wesbrook Mall for a time. In 1989, Regent moved into its own new building in the current location at the corner of Wesbrook & University, a subsequent capital campaign finished in 2006, adding the John Richard Allison Library and the Windtower to Regent Colleges architectural distinctiveness. Over 4500 students have graduated from Regent College and, due to the summer programs, after Vancouver, Hong Kong hosts the second greatest number of Regent graduates, with other major pockets in Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Singapore and London. At present, Regent College employs 17 full-time faculty, notable faculty emeriti include Eugene Peterson, Maxine Hancock, Loren Wilkinson, Gordon T. Smith, Paul Stevens, Gordon Fee, J. I. Packer and Bruce Waltke. Summer school classes are taught by some notable Christian thinkers. Wright, Andrew Walls, Luci Shaw, Richard Mouw, Alister McGrath, for a complete list of current faculty, emeriti, and notable alumni, see List of Regent College alumni and faculty. The John Richard Allison Library is one of the major libraries in Western Canada. It houses the resources of Regent and Carey Theological College and its catalogue is shared with Carey Theological College, Vancouver School of Theology, and St. Regent College Bookstore is one of the premier theological bookstores in Western Canada and it frequently hosts public lectures and booksignings, and has its own publishing program. The Lookout Gallery showcases seven annual exhibitions, including shows by Regent students in the Christianity, the Chapel is the heart of worship and community building at Regent
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Royal Columbian Hospital
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The Royal Columbian Hospital is the oldest hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia and one of the busiest in the Fraser Health Authority. RCH is located in the city of New Westminster overlooking the Fraser River and is the hospital in the Lower Mainland that is immediately adjacent to a Skytrain station. Royal Columbian Hospital is a tertiary care facility known for trauma care, neurosurgery and open-heart surgery. The hospital has the only capable of performing cardiac surgery for expectant women in the Province of British Columbia. Royal Columbian Hospital was again ranked one of the top hospitals in the country in caring for infants in its NICU in the latest Canadian Neonatal Network report. The hospital’s NICU, which cared for 528 of B. C. ’s premature and vulnerable infants during the study period, was rated one of the best in the country at saving these high-risk babies. It achieved a 98.6 percent survival rate overall for its infant patients, the hospital has consistently been in the top rankings over the roughly 18 years the Network has been producing the study. The hospital has 402 acute care beds and has a staff of approximately 385 physicians. Many of the physicians also practice at Eagle Ridge Hospital in nearby Port Moody, RCH has a helipad that receives air ambulances operated by the BC Ambulance Service. RCH offers free Wi-Fi through a FatPort hotspot near the main entrance, the need for a hospital to care for the sick and injured became a public concern during the population growth caused by the gold rushes of the 1850s and 1860s. The first Royal Columbian Hospital, designed for thirty patients and located on the corner of Clement, women, children, and the incurable and the insane were excluded from care. The Royal Engineers planned and helped build the hospital, the first in the colony, a chain gang from the penitentiary helped clear the site. RCH moved to its current location in the Sapperton area of New Westminster in 1889, an early physician and surgeon connected with the hospital at this location was Richard Irvine Bentley. In 1978, Prince Phillip and Health Minister Bob McClelland opened the addition of the Health Care Centre portion of the hospital, RCH housed a nursing school between 1901 and 1978 in the Sherbrooke building. It now accommodates administration and mental health clinical services, RCH is a Clinical Academic Campus affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia, the first in the Fraser Health region. Fraser Health, the authority that operates RCH, is working on plans to redevelop and expand the hospital to address aging infrastructure. In June 2012, the government committed to the expansion and renovation of the hospital
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St. Mark's College, Vancouver
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Marks College is a Roman Catholic theological college affiliated to the University of British Columbia. It was founded in 1956 by the Congregation of St. Basil and is next to Corpus Christi College, together they form one community as the president of Corpus Christi is also the principal of St. Marks. The college is situated on the University Endowment Lands on West Point Grey and within its grounds is the parish church. In 1956, St Marks College was founded by the Congregation of St. Basil when it received its charter from the Parliament of British Columbia, the Basilian Fathers also founded the University of St. Michaels College in the University of Toronto and Assumption University in Windsor, Ontario. Marks was founded it was affiliated with the University of British Columbia. The college, because it was next to Corpus Christi College and had St, Marks Chapel within its grounds, became a centre for Catholics on the Vancouver campus of the university. While the Basilian Fathers supported college, Fr, jim Hanrahan CSB taught in the universitys Department of History. Mark’s is named Hanrahan Hall after him, mark’s College was completed and the local Catholic parish moved there. The registrar of the college, Fr, klosterman CSB also served as parish priest of the area. In 2005, the Basilian fathers left the college and parish, the college appointed its first lay Principal, Dr. David Sylvester, that year. On 15 October 2013, the principal of St, Marks College, Mark Hagemoen was appointed as the bishop of the Diocese of Mackenzie-Fort Smith. On 16 June 2014, Dr Peter M. Meehan was appointed as the new principal of St, Marks College and the President of Corpus Christi. The college is located in the northeast of the universitys Vancouver campus, the college, through its charter, is able to offer Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degree in theology. The College currently offers Masters and Masters of Arts in Theological Studies, Educational Leadership, Pastoral Studies, a diploma is available for each program. As well, it is in charge of the formation for the first permanent diaconate program in the Archdiocese of Vancouver. Each year at its graduation ceremony, the College also grants an honorary doctorate, the Dr. John Micallef Memorial Library not only serves the college but is shared with Corpus Christi College. It is a member of the Vancouver School of Theology and it shares online resources with Regent College, Vancouver College, and the Carey Theological College. Marks Chapel, Vancouver Corpus Christi College St
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St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver)
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St. Pauls Hospital is an acute care hospital located in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the oldest of the seven health care facilities operated by Providence Health Care and it is also the home of the Pacific Adult Congenital Heart Disease unit. The 25-bed, 4-storey wood frame building cost $28,000 and it was designed and constructed by Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart and named after the then-bishop, Paul Durieu of New Westminster. Mother Mary Fredrick from Astoria, Oregon was the first mother superior and administrator to lead its charge, st Paul’s became one of the first hospitals with their own X-Ray machine in 1906 and opened its School of Nursing in 1907. In 1912, the building was demolished and replaced with a new structure to accommodate 200 patients at a construction cost of $400,000. In 2010, the hospital established Angels Cradle, the first modern Baby hatch in Canada where mothers could anonymously provide their newborns to the rather than abandon them elsewhere. Thirty seconds after a baby has been placed inside the modern version of a foundling wheel, a social worker contacts the Ministry of Children and Family Development which then assumes responsibility for the baby. In its first five years, two healthy babies had been placed in the baby hatch, st. Paul’s Hospital is listed on the City of Vancouvers Heritage Register category “A” but is not a designated heritage building and is not protected by legal statute. In the 21st Century, there has been ongoing advocacy for redevelopment of the facility, a redevelopment plan was drafted in 2010. In 2012, Premier Christy Clark said at the hospital that business case and development plans would be completed in order to begin construction in 2016
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Surrey Memorial Hospital
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Surrey Memorial Hospital is a publicly funded hospital owned and operated by Fraser Health in the city of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada adjacent to King George Boulevard. Surrey Memorial Hospital began operations in 1959, and is one of 12 hospitals under the jurisdiction of the Fraser Health Authority, Surrey Memorial is the second largest hospital in British Columbia and has the busiest emergency department. As of 2011, SMH provides service to over 93,000 emergency room patients per year, SMH specializes in Cancer and Renal care, kidney dialysis, and sleep disorders. In addition, there is an Adolescent, and an Adult Psychiatry Inpatient Unit, Surrey Memorial Hospital along with the near-by Jim Pattison Centre perform more immediate breast reconstruction surgeries per year than any other centre in Canada for women with breast cancer. On March 21,2011, construction broke ground on a new eight-storey Critical Care Tower to expand Surrey Memorial Hospital, the expansion will increase the number of acute care beds by 30% to 650 and includes a new emergency department almost five times the size of the current ER. Construction of the new Emergency Department was completed by winter 2013 and overall project was completed, after World War II, the population of suburban communities like Surrey were growing. The nearest hospital, Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster began limiting access to residents from the suburban communities. Premier W. A. C. Bennett of the British Columbia Social Credit Party required the community to contribute at least one-third of costs for construction, for Surrey Memorial, that equalled $100,000. The women who formed Surrey’s first “Ladies Auxiliary” not only rose to the challenge, SMH was eventually merged into the South Fraser Health Region which also administered health care in Delta, Surrey and Langley. In 2001, SMH came under management of Fraser Health when SFHR was merged with its neighbouring regions to create a new regional health authority. Under the guidance of Dr. Peter Doris and Dr. Adrian Lee and this quickly expanded with the addition of trained breast and reconstructive surgeons Dr. Rhonda Janzen, Dr. Paul Oxley and Dr. Rizwan Mian. In 2011 the Breast Health Clinic was launched at the Jim Pattison Out Patient, now encompassing three general surgeons and five plastic surgeons, this clinic has become one of the leaders of Breast Cancer care in Canada. Location site on fraserhealth. ca Map of hospital buildings and grounds
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TRIUMF
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TRIUMF is Canadas national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and accelerator-based science. TRIUMF is considered Canadas premier physics laboratory, and is regarded as one of the leading subatomic physics research centers on the international level. TRIUMF houses the worlds largest cyclotron, a source of 520 MeV protons, TRIUMFs accelerator-focused activities involve particle physics, nuclear physics, nuclear medicine, materials science, and detector and accelerator development. There are over 500 scientists, engineers, technicians, tradespeople, administrative staff, postdoctoral fellows, the lab attracts over 1000 national and international researchers every year and has generated over $1B in economic impact activity over the last decade. TRIUMF scientists and university-based physicists develop and implement Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s long-range plan for subatomic physics, TRIUMF uses these plans to develop its own priorities. TRIUMF has over 50 international agreements for scientific research. TRIUMFs cyclotron infrastructure has enabled the laboratory’s proton therapy cancer treatment centre – the only one of its kind in Canada, TRIUMFs proton therapy centre is operated in conjunction with the British Columbia Cancer Agency and the University of British Columbia Department of Ophthalmology. Asteroid 14959 TRIUMF is named in honour of the laboratory, TRIUMF was founded in 1968 by Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Victoria in order to meet research needs that no single university could provide. The original acronym, stemming from the name TRI University Meson Facility, was dropped and is no longer used to reflect TRIUMFs current state as a consortium of 19 universities, TRIUMF currently has 19 member and associate universities from across Canada. Since its inception as a university facility, TRIUMF has evolved into a national laboratory while still maintaining strong ties to the research programs of Canadian universities. The science program has expanded from nuclear physics to include physics, molecular and materials science, nuclear medicine. TRIUMFs 520 MeV cyclotron was officially commissioned on February 9,1976 by Pierre Trudeau, at the commissioning ceremony, he said I dont really know what a cyclotron is, but I am certainly very happy Canada has one. Before the Riken SRC was built, TRIUMF was the worlds largest cyclotron in terms of weight, the Riken SRC is now heavier than the TRIUMF cyclotron, but TRIUMF has the largest beam radius and the largest vacuum tank. The Riken magnetic field covers from 3.5 m to 5.5 m radius with the beam radius of about 5 metres. The TRIUMF field goes from 0 to about 320 inches radius with the beam radius of 310 inches. This is because it require a lower magnetic field to reduce EM stripping, since its inception, TRIUMF has had eight directors overseeing its operations. Erich Vogt becomes an Officer of the Order of Canada, Jack Sample becomes director of TRIUMF1977 – Medium-resolution spectrometer MRS in operation, the facility is organized into four divisions that focus on varying aspects of research and operations. The Accelerator Division has operational, maintenance, and required upgrade responsibility for all of the 520 MeV Cyclotron, ISAC, the division also has responsibility for the design, construction, and commissioning of future accelerators on-site, and it provides support for external accelerator projects
