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3 Talon-approved Events: November 3–10
1. March and Protest Against the Managers of Homelessness Social Housing Alliance BC is organizing a march to protest against the national Conference on Ending Homelessness and “government policies and NGO industries that manage homeless, low-income, and Indigenous people without challenging or disrupting the systems and social conditions that cause homelessness and poverty.” $650 (or $400 […]
3 Talon-approved Events this Week
1. AMS Annual General Meeting This year’s UBC Alma Mater Society Annual General Meeting is crucially important due to the recent tuition and residence increases. The meeting will feature votes on student action against these hikes as well as an opportunity to discuss the increases as well as other issues affecting UBC students. A quorum […]
3 Talon-Approved Events this Week
PANEL DISCUSSION | RED SKIN, WHITE MASKS: REJECTING THE COLONIAL POLITICS OF RECOGNITION Glen Coulthard’s new book Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition is some pretty ground-breaking work. Coulthard, a professor in the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at UBC, is an acclaimed academic and theorist. […]
3 Talon-Approved Events: October 13–20
Spoken Works Performance Night Hosted by Spoken Works (formerly SPEND poetry), this event offers a platform for sharing poetry, music, and art in a non-competitive safe space. The event is organized within an anti-oppressive framework and will prioritize the voices of those who identify as queer, trans*, intersex, mixed, indigenous, and/or persyns of colour. If […]
Come Participate in The Talon’s Photo Project: “Facing Our Debt”
Over the course of a four-year degree, the average BC student will rack up $35,000 in debt, far more than the (already inflated) national average of $27,000. It takes most Canadian graduates seven years to pay back their student debt and 13% of students eventually default on their loans. Student debt and tuition in BC are […]
3 Talon-Approved Events this Week
Here are 3 (out of many) awesome events you should check out this week: PANEL – Embracing Food Justice: Transforming Our Food Systems from Seed to Table @ SFU Harbour Centre The Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG) hosts a panel discussion (and Q & A) on the complex relationship between food, consumers, […]
Seeking: YOUR House Hunt Horror Stories
Hi folks! For a new series on Vancouver’s ongoing affordable housing crisis and how it is impacting UBC students, we’re looking for your house hunt horror stories. Spent three months looking for a place and wound up living on a rickety living room floor with an ad-hoc partition? Jumping between houses slated for demolition just […]
Statement of Intent
Why did we start The Talon? We, The Talon editorial collective, are a group of students who believe that an alternative press is both possible and necessary on these unceded lands that we call the University of British Columbia. As it stands, there is only one student newspaper, a publication that sees its role as […]
