UBC wants to double its population - with no local government

[@arianayoung2075]

I graduated from UBC last year. Though, I am proud of my alma mater, I can say they’re cash cows everything cost a fortune parking, residences, meal. It’s a mall not a university.

[@icantwiththis]

A luxury mall ..

[@micrasystems]

So UBC = the new Brentwood or Oakridge mall . just kidding

[@jq8974]

I graduated from UBC in the 90s. Even then many of us were living in illegal suites because they kept building luxury housing on campus instead of looking after the students. Many decisions were made for the “city” UBC and not the university. It would be wise for the government to put accountability into the institution that bears the provinces name. And for the campus to stop sending me email asking for donations. I take the John Mulaney view 😉

[@mondayjoker]

More like ubc wants to double it's student tuition revenue on the backs of foreign borrowers

[@Laissez-faire402]

We desperately need to start instituting laws preventing universities from doing this.

[@okeng71487]

The whimsical music is really annoying.

[@Laissez-faire402]

It's because they're mocking Canadians.

[@Lamefoureyes]

More democracy is probably good. Let's do that.

[@Ynalaw]

Thanks to UBC for being so accomodating to transracial students. I'm a Chinese man, but I self-identify as a Jamaican woman. UBC is very diverse and inclusive.

[@amank.7052]

😂😅

[@mja532]

😂😂😂

[@kentrutherford8389]

That’s because UBC is a mess.

[@Handle-this-15]

Yeah but tuition keeps going up to deal with the therapists the teachers need after dealing with today's mentality ill children

[@Cutlerypotato]

That's awesome our PM identifies as black every Halloween and I really look up to him for his leadership.

[@ReXox35]

These NIMBY's should have absolutely no representation at UBC at all. The University was established long before they were there. UBC, as an institution, should have sole say about how it uses its own land.

[@NihonKaikan]

These people moved into housing that UBC built, knowing all conditions of living there.

[@aquilesriffo]

it is not like ' I do what I want' due to regulations

[@jq8974]

I went to UBC. Most of us lived in the legal suites because they were so busy building luxury housing on UBC land. The place is a farce. it needs accountability outside of itself.

[@shem4753]

Our university is running for an international students and it is not for canadian students anymore.

[@Ferocious_Imbecile]

Funny how it was built on our parents and our tax dollars but it's not for us.

[@JonnyGee]

and forget about going to McGill or Concordia now that Canadian's who live outside of Quebec will have to pay the international tuition rate!

[@mastersonogashira1796]

You do realize international students pay quadruple the tuition than you right? The problem is the waste of funding and greed from the board, not students who scraped everything they have to get here

[@shem4753]

@@mastersonogashira1796 and you do realize that they don't do any favour by paying that fees in to canada as they use healthcare systems. Hospital and transit system.housing and all other government services.also they work here and taking up canadian jobs and earn money as well.

[@mastersonogashira1796]

@@shem4753 international student pays extra for health insurance and upass (transit) is mandatory for all students. Either you never went to ubc, or still have the impression from the last century. Plus, international students don’t even use transit, most of them live on campus. Stop being a nationalist zealot, that’s how they get you to support their ridiculous tuition and spending habit

[@mastersonogashira1796]

It’s hilarious, UBC talks about sustainability all the time (and used it as excuse to raise tuition), yet they chose the most unsustainable growth ever: real estate development

[@mensrea1251]

That’s a poor take. If real estate development is “unsustainable growth” and we shouldn’t do it, then I’d like to see you literally build your own hut and live in it. You won’t though. You just want cheap rent and zero responsibility from the looks of it.

[@mastersonogashira1796]

@@mensrea1251 UBC has a very limited land and a housing issue. Yet they are using their land to develop condo. What is the problem wanting cheap rent near a school with limited public transit? The purpose of a public school should be providing the population with education, not making millions and building useless new facilities

[@mensrea1251]

@@mastersonogashira1796 Most of the endowment lands are pristine forest. There’s plenty of land. What are you even talking about. And there’s nothing wrong with wanting cheap rent. What’s wrong is attacking land development while wanting cheap rent. Do you know what happens when you don’t develop land? Supply gets constrained. Do you know what happens to rent when supply gets constrained? Did you even go to school?

[@mastersonogashira1796]

@@mensrea1251 im not one of those Green Party fanatic, but you are telling me UBC board will allow housing development on pacific spirit park? Or those single family homes near the village? The world must be a fairy tale for you, everyone in power is doing their best to help you, yea? It took the student committee years of effort just to convince them not make the building near bus loop commercial, and then they just sold the entire Westbrook to polygon. You try to rent for 1000 dollars a month while going to school and tell me how that feel, ok?

[@emilysheppardart]

I work at UBC as a technician . I have been there for over 3 years and have never met in person with any staff that works there. When you are there, you feel like a number in a sea of numbers. The focus on numbers makes me wonder, is it a school or a business? What does this then mean for the quality and integrity of the education?

[@Xalta_Sailor]

Wow CBC forgot to shut off the comments like usual.

[@BC_Geoff]

The comments are almost always enabled on the local CBC Vancouver channel. It's on the bigger CBC channels like The National and CBC News that the comments are always disabled.

[@wildandliving]

99 year leases while having no government over site.... going to be big problems down the road... so who pays to fix roads water pipes ect.... ubc they own the land and run it... selling homes on leases like that should be illegal

[@zareeftashfique8168]

UBC stands for… U Bring Cash for a reason

[@Ice_Karma]

2:17 "[...] where new homes are *_sold_* on 99-year *_leases"_* -- uhh, so which is it, a sale, or a lease?

[@mensrea1251]

Lease.

[@kaze987]

Lease

[@nikkijubilant]

Please remove the annoying music

[@Laissez-faire402]

It's because CBC is laughing at the average Canadian.

[@LilyHunter-n2j]

This gives me hope. I've been trying to acquire land to create a community of people who would like to build scarecrows with me, speak in tongues, and learn to ferment food. Bonfires too!

[@icantwiththis]

What about snake raising?

[@kimberleyhunter6815]

Will there be s’mores?

[@HairVouge.studio]

You have me sold on this land already

[@RealityExpd]

Aka just starting with the 15 minute cities WEF agenda plan.

[@kanucks9]

Bro you are mental.

[@RealityExpd]

@@kanucks9 Can't handle the truth now can you.

[@Laissez-faire402]

​@@kanucks9Refute what he said or leave. Calling someone mental is not an acceptable argument.

[@vancouverviking4652]

​@kanucks9 a young blackface in the making, I see.

[@tapper122]

What a house of cards.

[@Cutlerypotato]

That should really help make housing more affordable

[@rboddington]

Nice to see all the Chinese students wearing masks.

[@vancouverviking4652]

Yes, they bring the communism with them 😮

[@mensrea1251]

Wtf is your point.

[@alhubele654]

Only the rich can afford to live there.

[@jean-sebastienlevesque1338]

Well, they are actually building housing so there’s that!

[@JonnyGee]

Well, that should make the students of with super wealthy parents from abroad happy ;)

[@Squatle]

@@JonnyGee Look you're not wrong. I just really want you to be

[@kephalopod3054]

UBC is not in Vancouver, though it is just adjacent to it.

[@TalwinderDhillonTravels]

NIMBYs complaining about UBC not letting them be NIMBYs

[@ser9656]

I wonder if any of that “population” will be actual Canadians.

[@marl6908]

Nope.

[@thehellyousay]

I wonder how many concussions you've suffered ...?

[@Laissez-faire402]

​@@thehellyousayNot an argument. Debate what he said or get out.

[@mastersonogashira1796]

As for 2023 admission round, only 28% students are international. Doesn’t matter if they are Canadian or not, as long as you are a student living on campus, you should be able to vote. Cuz I don’t think anyone would like to see their rent or tuition going any higher

[@icantwiththis]

No🙄

[@HairVouge.studio]

Wait but?, this is kinda perfect. And I never agree with the news.

[@TalwinderDhillonTravels]

Until the news agrees with you 😂

[@HairVouge.studio]

@@TalwinderDhillonTravels yea, wtf lol 😂

[@squatch545]

If residents don't like the land use plan, it's not "tough", they can vote out the provincial government.

[@Toronto_Luddite]

as long as there isn't some richer, more demanding, more populus batch of older people that dominate the voting pool

[@mastersonogashira1796]

The governor is already very left leaning, wtf are we gonna vote for? Stalin reincarnated?

[@mja532]

I heard some departments coming to Surrey . Is that true ?????

[@affreuxgalopin]

From immigration...😂😂😂 CANADA no more...thanks to politicians 😂😂

[@rishi505]

Justin T needs to resign. I came 20 years back and will never vote for liberals

[@vancouverviking4652]

This CBC reporter has he/ him pronouns.😂

[@marl6908]

That's what happens when you give the land to the First Nations.

[@amank.7052]

Huh

[@marl6908]

What do you think they meant by 'lease' in the video?@@amank.7052

[@ryuuguu01]

I know there is a lot of taking land from First Nations, but I can't say I have heard of much giving of land to First Nations. The occasional returning land that the government had signed a treaty agreeing it was their land then taking it anyway. Sometimes the courts force the government to return that land, sometimes.

[@thehellyousay]

Go have another drink.

[@cinpeace353]

​@@thehellyousayYou are so polite. 😁

[@Make_America_Native_Again]

We will take back the land.

[@vancouverviking4652]

😂😂😂