Hunger for Home: Access to Asian Ingredients in Kelowna
Empty shelves at Kelowna’s Asian grocery stores raise a bigger question about food, belonging, and the cultural bridges …
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Not Done Yet: The Trill Seekers Are Going to Semis
Avid readers of The Phoenix should remember UBC Okanagan’s a cappella club, The Beats. If you have read about them in ou…
Film Education at UBCO or the Lack Thereof?: A Conversation with Denise Kenney
Films have immense value in the classroom. Whether it be theory or production, studying film opens our eyes to a generat…
On-Demand Streaming Services: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
We are students of a digital age. Most days, we do not write assignments on paper, but submit lengthy word documents as …
Is UBCO’s Co-op Program Worth It?
Youth in Canada face the highest unemployment rate this country has seen since the mid-1990s, meaning that securing a jo…
Becoming Unforeign to a Foreign Language
It was almost nine p.m.. My mom, dad, brother and I walked into a local restaurant near our hotel on Jeju Island. We wer…
The Ways of Knowing: The Emptiness of Land Acknowledgements
When I first came to Canada as an international undergraduate student, I thought I knew a decent amount about the countr…
“UBCO Engineering Students: Trained To Be Ostriches with their Heads in the Sand”
Debates about ethics have occasionally rippled through UBC Okanagan’s engineering student population. One notable spark …
StEARing AI: Directing the Course of Artificial Intelligence in Education
The introduction of ChatGPT, a generative AI tool, marked a before and after in the way that we approach knowledge acqui…
A Reflection on Governance at UBC with Isabella Bravo
Isabella Bravo, a third-year management student, is the current Student Representative to the Board of Governors of the …
The One-Way Mirror: A Look into the Sinister Power of Data Surveillance
As I talked about the implications of our data usage online with a computer science student, I remember thinking I didn’…
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What did That’s What [We] Said say?
A few months ago, before the air turned chilly and winter truly settled, I happened to be walking to class when I caught…