- Graduate Student Society of UBC: A by-election is happening for the President of the students' union. Nominations close February 26, and voting takes place March 5-12. GSS Notes (the students' union's email newsletter) for February 5, 2007 states that elections for the four other executive positions were taking place, so I am assuming that nobody bothered to run for President....
- UBCSU-Okanagan: neither the UBC Okanagan students' union website nor the student newspaper's website have any information on the upcoming election. Under the bylaws (PDF), "the general election for the board of directors positions shall take place no later than March 31st of any given year."
- BCIT Student Association elections will take place "between the last school week of March and the last school week of April" according to the Bylaws (PDF). The elections will be conducted by VP Administration & Finance Todd Embley, in accordance with those bylaws.... (No offense meant to Mr. Embley, but I don't think highly of elections being run by elected students' union executives.)
- The Camosun College Student Society runs its elections in the fall. Fall 2006 results are available here.
- A motion to hold a by-election this April will be considered by the Council of the Kwantlen Student Association this Wednesday.
- The Langara Voice reports that "Langara [College] students have trickled to the polls to elect the students' union executive council, and, once again, the whole process has been met with a resounding yawn." 248 students voted, or 4% of the total population. (Interestingly, this article quotes External Affairs coordinator candidate Kira Daley, part of the "Langara 2.")
- The 'Elections' page of the Malaspina Students' Union website has not been updated since the Spring 2005 election....
- Northern Undergraduate Student Society (UNBC): Elections are finished; turnout appears to be rather low. The student newspaper hasn't posted new issues online since March 2006....
- The Simon Fraser Student Society is holding its annual election March 20-22. Nominations close March 5. (Source: Facebook.)
- Trinity Western University Student Association: elections are finished and results are in. Only two out of five executive positions were contested (President and VP Student Relations).
- I'm pretty confident that the elections to the University of Victoria Students' Society will be pretty interesting this year... but so far, no new news.
(Stay tuned for an Election Roundup from other provinces!)
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GSS of UBC: Nobody was nominated for president, so nominations were left open an additional week. Two were nominated. One apparently withdrew after discovering the race was contested. The other eventually realized what the time commitment would do to his research, and withdrew a couple days into voting. Hence the byelection.
This is awful -- no nominations for the UBC GSS. No doubt another coup by the big money CFS machine. CUP needs to put their best bloodhounds on this one. Oh....wait a minute no derisive comments needed UBC GSS is a not a CFS school, false alarm -- simply a case of not enough people intersted in running. Save the "add water, instant conspiracy mix" for a CFS school.
(No offense meant to Mr. Embley, but I don't think highly of elections being run by elected students' union executives.)
Grant MacEwan college (Alberta) SA's elections are run by one of the SA's staff people! What do you think of that!?
"Grant MacEwan college (Alberta) SA's elections are run by one of the SA's staff people! What do you think of that!?"
Could be problematic under certain circumstances, but not necessarily. By contrast, elected officials have to campaign to get their positions in the first place.
SFU's Institute of Governance Studies studied this very issue in 1998 and made some recomendations regarding municipal elections in British Columbia:
http://www.sfu.ca/igs/report/assets/report2.pdf#page=33
UVic wise, the election may be interesting but did election that for the first time saw the defeat of the left wing slate actually change anything?
That should be the ballot question.
It should be an intersting election at SFU. Slates have been banned for this election. There'll be a referendum on grad students forming an independent student society. Pending legal approval, there'll also be a non-binding referendum on ceasing membership in the CFS.
Glad you are back Titus.
I go through all the hassle of making a new IEC site and you quote FACEBOOK as your source of info on the SFSS elections? For shame, Titus.
Hi Titus,
Olwen here from the Phoenix. The UBCSUO elections will be held on March 12 and 13. Right now we are in the middle of nominations and I heard (through a few little birdies) that there will be more candidates than last year. Next week is campaign week and I'm sure it will be an interesting time.
Take care,
Olwen Cowan
Editor-in-Chief
The Phoenix
UBC O's Student Newspaper
editor@ubcophoenix.com
Sorry George Pringle, but your post just isn't very true. The left wing slate wasn't completely defeated considering they occupied 3 of the 4 executive decisions once all the controversy was all said and done. The other side did win 9 of the 11 Director at Large positions, however. By controlling the executive, the left wing slate effectively controlled the direction of the board. Overall, the year was largely a stalemate.
Every vote is equal if the people have the guts to take action or any ideological theme driving them. This group of BC Libs whose commonality seems to be membership in the Sailing Club didn't have the skills or knowledge to fight the CFS lap dogs.
Execs can only do what they are told by the BoD.
a) The BC Liberals have nothing to do with this or last years election.
b) Please do not stereotype a group of people as being in the Sailing Club. I believe 2 members of the current slate are involved with it.
c) The board is also comprised of representitives from advocacy groups who get to vote too.
d) Very little productive work occurred this year because of the board being so split. Executive positions have more power than you seem to think. The board can say what to do, but that doesn't mean it gets done very quickly. A motion passed at last October's AGM only start to make headway last week. Read about it here: http://www.martlet.ca/view.php?aid=39347
ubcsuo held their elections a couple of weeks ago... students4students won by a landslide... again. They have been pretty good at making sure their members can access their services, which is probably why they won by a landslide, again. I don't even know who the other group was, but I do know that I couldn't access the other group's website. This is the fourth [ and final :( ] year in a row that I have voted S4S, and thanks to them I don't have to pay to do my income taxes this year. btw, this is the second time I have posted on titus' site, and I'm posting anonymous not because I'm pro-cfs [like some other (paranoid consipiricy theory)commenter alleged] but because I'm too damn lazy to set up my own account. ciao titus, glad you're back. I know your new job must be a handful, and I missed you while you were gone!
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