Nawar's resignation comes after a Ubyssey article reported yesterday that she violated her fiduciary and confidentiality duties to the student union.

Concerns about a costly legal battle and that firing Nawar would tank the AMS’s chances of passing fee increases for services, clubs and projects ultimately saved her employment, sources said.

We used several unnamed sources to report this story — having to balance completing ethical obligations to be transparent and to protect sources. Here's how we decided what to do.

At Wednesday’s meeting, discussion about discussion dominated the agenda — and ultimately saw the main motion on cutting ties with Israeli universities sent back to committee.

UBC has had plenty of promising rookies across the T-Birds’ varsity teams this year, but no first-year player made quite the same impact that Sophie Harrison did. Coming to UBC from England, Harrison ...

Senators will discuss the Apartheid Free Communities motion, as well as the AMS's open letter on partnerships with Israeli universities.

Hundreds of students poured into the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre on a sunny afternoon in mid-March, filling almost an entire side of the arena in anticipation of the first-ever Ice Cup, wh...

For our fourth award, we’ll be recognizing the player that made the largest jump in play from year-to-year — and for us, that was receiver Trey Montour, who came out of nowhere to produce a spectacular, star-making season.

Here are some of The Ubyssey's best photos from the 2025-26 school year.

For our third award, we’re recognizing the most impactful moment of the year — a play, an off-the-field story, a celebration — a single point in time that has resonated for months after. The easy winner here was the last-second try that clinched a championship for Women’s Rugby, in front of their home crowd, no less.

AMS VP Student Life Kevin Heieis has led the drive to bring back the dormant Blue and Gold Society. But coming in a month before the end of his term, it remains to be seen if the society can build eno...

Continuing a trend from the last fiscal quarter, AMS businesses continue to fall short of their financial targets. While the businesses are not collectively in a deficit, they have not been meeting their net contribution expectations as the AMS had expected.

For the second award, we’re recognizing the best sporting event of the year, a single game that stood above the rest in terms of tension, excitement and stakes. In the closest vote of all our awards, Men’s Basketball’s semifinal comeback win against Winnipeg took the win here.

I was struck by “Wuthering Heights”’s divergence from Brontë’s novel. But it was clear that it had no intention of being a faithful adaptation.

An adaptation of the 1976 film of the same name, <i>Network</i> was written for the stage by English writer Lee Hall in 2017 and directed for the Jericho Arts Centre by UBC’s own Kathleen Duborg.

After watching UBC’s varsity teams throughout the year, The Ubyssey’s Sports team has come together to bestow awards on the best athletes, teams and moments of the year. Up first, Team of the Year. Wo...

In intimate interviews with the women who pioneered the movement from the 1970s to the ‘90s, Analogue Revolution documents the truly transformative and revolutionary power media creation held and stil...

As part of its composer concert series, the UBC School of Music held a concert at Roy Barnett Recital Hall to spotlight new contemporary works by UBC composition students. The composers presented four...

A few weeks ago, The Peak wrote a piece about something that happened a few weeks earlier. Like they kind of correctly reported, it all started at NASH, Canada’s National Student Journalism Conference...

<i>Tupananchiskama</i> features Andean art and artifacts collected by former UBC Professor Alan R. Sawyer.

Now passed, this year’s budget calls for $3.077 billion in operating expenses, a four per cent — or $132 million — increase in spending compared to last year’s forecasted budget.

AI chatbots can deliver exactly what users want with minimal effort, like a genie granting endless answers with the rub of a lamp. The idea, which researchers call the ‘AI Genie’ phenomenon, is at the...

Student Governor Jasper Lorien has resigned from UBC’s Board of Governors — the university’s highest decision-making body — citing personal reasons.

With a brief yet intriguing plot description — “ten AI-Cyborg teens make a time capsule to prove their existence” — Pyper is the UBC Department of Theatre and Film’s latest production, directed by Ass...

A team of researchers at UBC reviewed the policy’s impact on salmon populations.

After a Waterloo goal gave the Warriors a lead a minute in, it looked like UBC’s season might end with a loss. Instead, UBC flipped the script early, dominating from then on — including a four-goal se...

Cora Thomas runs the Vanwest Anarchist Bookfair, where she and other writers sell their work in the Nest’s Atrium every six months. The most recent fair took place on March 19 and 20.

Playing mostly for pride, the T-Birds looked much more like themselves in the consolation semifinal against Ottawa. Despite Gee-Gees goalie Clara Genier standing on her head in net with 37 saves, the ...

Arts students are voting on a student society fee increase as the AUS says rising inflation and operational costs make it difficult to sustain its services.

UBC is partnering with the provincial government to invest in innovative companies that “extend” the impact of UBC research and discoveries through the creation of UBC Catalyst Venture Fund. The fund ...

The most talented roster that UBC women’s hockey has likely ever assembled went out with a whimper. In a stunning shootout loss, the T-Birds continued their historical struggles at nationals, being el...

When we spoke with Nardwuar the Human Serviette in the CiTR record library, we thought we were on a tight timeline. Nardwuar doesn’t think that way.

Brave New Play Rites features an aspect of the theatre production process that audiences usually don’t get to see: the stage reading.

The look-alike contest's appeal could lie in the amusing act of imitation itself, or, more likely, in a desire for community.

The Executive Performance & Accountability Committee is done, for now. Its replacement needs to be more transparent.

In early September 2025, students at the UBC School of Music found their access to the Chan Shun Concert Hall severely reduced. MUSA hosted a protest on March 12 featuring performances by musicians fr...

Hackathons like cmd-f are as computer science as electric apple pie. Each person, in groups of up to four, attempts to write a functioning computer program in 24 hours. 24 straight hours.

Throughout the week of March 9, the Hatch welcomed Purple Thread, a Women’s Day art exhibition featuring Latin American artists exploring their artistic forms and interpretations of feminism.

Consolation brackets present a unique challenge. The ultimate goal is lost. Instead of playing for first, you play for fifth. Motivation has to come from elsewhere. For this UBC team, they found the d...

The audience hardly touched their chairs as they danced and clapped along to the SUBA trio’s Afro-Cuban-Venezulan jazz-fusion at the Chan Centre.

The Museum of Anthropology was lit up and alive on March 12 with bold colours, textiles and the ambient sounds of runway music and oohs and ahhs from the crowd for the second annual Slow Fashion Show,...

Throughout the week of March 3, the MOA, along with the Anvil Centre in New Westminster, hosted the 19th Coastal Dance Festival. The festival’s program brought together Indigenous artists from all ove...

Against Montréal, UBC’s season came dangerously close to ending after a disappointing opening set, but they didn’t let the deficit faze them. Responding by winning three straight sets, they gave thems...

After these in-province rivals had battled to the final point of the fifth set in their last two meetings, it felt like a given that this game, on the national stage, would also go the distance. Inste...