On Jan. 17 and 18, BC esports organization Galint Gaming hosted the second Pataka Esports Festival at Surrey City Hall. Welcoming about 300 attendees from across the Pacific Northwest, the festival was focused on representing and celebrating South Asian culture. ubyssey.ca/culture/pata...

UBC researchers have discovered a 70-year-old Parkinson’s drug to be a strong candidate for treating tuberculosis (TB) by using an innovative approach that bypasses traditional antibiotics. ubyssey.ca/research/dru...

Carry stepped down from his role effective Jan. 28, UBC announced yesterday in a message to senior leadership signed by President Benoit-Antoine Bacon. ubyssey.ca/news/vp-stud...

The Indigenous Student Society, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs and B.C. Assembly of First Nations have all derided the university’s decision not to prohibit the demonstration. ubyssey.ca/news/univers...

Trinity Western has never beaten UBC in men's hockey. They didn't even come close on Friday night, as a frenzied Winter Classic crowd pushed the 'Birds to their most dominant performance in the last three years. ubyssey.ca/sports/mens-...

Vancouver — the birthplace of global brands like Lululemon, Aritzia and Herschel — throws away 22,000 tonnes of apparel each year, even though 95% of it could be repaired, reused, or recycled. ubyssey.ca/culture/slow...

The 'Birds swept the Dinos in straight sets on Saturday afternoon, winning two in a row against Calgary without losing a set. Yet, in this one, the Dinos played much closer than the score indicates. ubyssey.ca/sports/women...

After a frantic but narrowly successful first season and a full year of planning for the next, Unreal City Festival is now in its second year with three nights of live music at the Rickshaw and Russian Hall on Jan. 15, 16 and 17. ubyssey.ca/culture/unre...

Though I tried to direct our conversation to more immediate matters, Flexxon’s self-assured suaveness had me invested in what he referred to as his “aura-farming origin story.” ubyssey.ca/humour/gotta...

UBC’s most recent financial report, the 2025 Statement of Financial Information, reveals that the university’s top ten earners received a median salary well over $650,000. ubyssey.ca/news/ubc-sof...

In 2022, no less than five demonstrations were held on campus condemning Iran’s religious totalitarianism. The Persian Club was at the centre of organizing those demonstrations, now continuing their calls for freedom and justice in Iran into 2026. ubyssey.ca/news/persian...

In front of a raucous Winter Classic crowd, the 'Birds didn't let two early Trinity Western leads scare them, answering fast before taking control in the second, securing a 4–2 win. ubyssey.ca/sports/women...

As dances and songs honoured Indigenous resilience, multiple assaults took place metres away amid clashes on the grass outside IKB, and residential school denialist MLA Dallas Brodie barricaded herself inside the Aquatic Centre. ubyssey.ca/news/hundred...

Student groups continue to raise concerns over the rushed nature of the province’s recently announced post-secondary review, calling on the government to properly fund post-secondary institutions. ubyssey.ca/news/student...

Coming off a frustrating fifth set loss on the road against Saskatchewan last weekend, UBC bounced back in emphatic fashion on Friday night, sweeping the MacEwan University Griffins in straight sets ubyssey.ca/sports/women...

Media theorist and professor in the UBC department of English Dr. Richard Cavell has recently published Mediatic Shakespeare, a book discussing how Shakespeare was writing at a moment when oral culture, scribal practices and the new force of print collided ubyssey.ca/research/med...

A terminated school teacher, disgraced professor and a sitting MLA are coming to campus to “debate” the realities of residential schools and to rage-bait UBC into content for their movement. ubyssey.ca/opinion/edit...

MLA Dallas Brodie, who has been called the “antithesis of reconciliation,” and other residential school denialists are planning on holding an on-campus event this Thursday. ubyssey.ca/news/demonst...

At the end of the first quarter, UBC Men’s Basketball found themselves in an unexpected situation. The Birds, who were 10–2 on the year, were down by five points to the 2–10 UNBC Timberwolves. ubyssey.ca/sports/mens-...

In one of their most complete performances of the season, on Friday night, the Thunderbirds dominated the second-ranked Dinos in a game that, from the opening puck drop, never felt that close. The 4–0 final score, if anything, was kind to Calgary. ubyssey.ca/sports/mens-...

In its first exhibition of 2026, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery puts these threats to canvas, code and film with The Structure of Smoke. ubyssey.ca/culture/fire...

UBC has removed the academic progress wheel from the Workday Student platform for some programs that use academic progress reports, such as the Faculty of Arts, saying the feature did “not accurately reflect the percentage of completion” for students’ academic progress. ubyssey.ca/news/workday...

During the 2024-25 academic year, 38 student volunteers collectively poured 3,600 hours into running AMS Peer Support, a service dedicated to helping UBC students dealing with academic stress, substance use and other issues impacting mental well-being. ubyssey.ca/features/mee...

On Jan. 6, we received an email from Wong, inviting us to the aura-farming competition being held a few hours later in the Nest. When the UBC community needed him most, Pea Man was here to save the day. ubyssey.ca/culture/pea-...

AMS Council met to discuss its priorities for UBC's operating budget 2026-27 and hear an update to the AMS/GSS Health and Dental Plan. ubyssey.ca/news/between...

A stage adaptation of the classic American novel, the aptly named Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, made its Vancouver — and Canadian debut — with a production by the Arts Club Theatre Company, and it might just be the best adaptation of the source material yet ubyssey.ca/culture/ilou...

I set out to find Texas in Vancouver: a brisket in the great white north that I could go to when I missed people with accents like dripping molasses ubyssey.ca/culture/sear...

In 2025, the Huntley administration replaced toxicity with focus. In 2026, as students confront the affordability crisis and the AMS faces its deficit, service costs and businesses’ performance, this is the new bar in student politics. ubyssey.ca/opinion/poin...

Photographer and UBC alum Cassidy Chen has already shot shows at Paris Fashion Week and made Forbes' 30 Under 30 list, but she isn't planning on slowing down anytime soon. ubyssey.ca/features/cas...

Categorizing Chopping Spree, a Vancouver band with roots at UBC, is difficult. Their new album, however, focuses on transcribing jazz onto Vancouver's underground music scene — and people can't get enough of it. ubyssey.ca/features/cho...

Madhavan Geetam, “Krishna’s Flute,” was a show of South Indian classical music and dance presented by the Time Will Tell Arts Society in partnership with Layaa Rhythmic Arts and Vancouver SaPaSa. ubyssey.ca/culture/kris...

For 52 years, Dave Doroghy and his carollers have taken to the streets of West Point Grey to spread holiday cheer. But what started as nothing more than a few teenagers taking advantage of lenient alcohol rules in the Doroghy household has become something much bigger. ubyssey.ca/features/pea...

Senate met for the last time this year to discuss the student experience of instruction survey data, look at UBC’s research accomplishments and hear the annual library report. ubyssey.ca/news/senate-...

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! is a Russian romantic comedy that is equal parts silly drunken misunderstandings, reflections on how deeply the transitory nature of time is felt on New Year’s Eve and the reminder of how fate can change our lives suddenly. ubyssey.ca/culture/twel...

Bluntly-titled, Hot Frosty follows a widowed diner owner who wraps a magic scarf around the neck of a ripped snowman, not knowing he would come to life and bring joy to the small town. ubyssey.ca/culture/twel...

UBC came to the conclusion that the way to increase student morale was simple: host a campus-wide talent show inspired by everyone's glory years — elementary school! ubyssey.ca/humour/ubc-g...

Is there anything more quintessentially suburban/middle class/North American in December than your parents powering down your Wii and telling you to “log off that game already,” only to turn on those relaxing, soothing, mind-numbing flames for hours on end? ubyssey.ca/culture/twel...

It’s a regular afternoon for Nazreen Cameron as she prepares roti and chicken curry in her kitchen, when she gets the sudden urge to check her phone. ubyssey.ca/features/naz...

“The first time someone saw me, they screamed … they called me an ‘abominable snowman.’ It really hurt.” ubyssey.ca/humour/ralph...

Students will be forced to opt into the UBC Battle Pass as a part of their student fees, effective at the start of the new term, Jan. 5, 2026. ubyssey.ca/humour/ubc-l...

The sets at Shindig, the annual Battle of the Bands hosted by CiTR/Discorder Magazine, spanned genres and aesthetics that drew in a crowd of all demographics. ubyssey.ca/culture/shin...

UBC recently sent 14 students, staff and faculty — some attending in-person and others virtually — to COP30, held in Belém, Brazil from Nov. 10 to 22. ubyssey.ca/news/ubc-cop...

On the last day of classes, hundreds of students gathered on Wreck Beach for the Calendar's annual polar bear swim. Here are photos from the catharsis. ubyssey.ca/photo/photos...

On the heels of their annual provincial lobbying trip, AMS executives said their campaign for pushing student-run food bank grants and voicing concerns for the provincial post-secondary education review went “quite successfully.” ubyssey.ca/news/ams-pro...

This holiday season, UBC has generously decided to give students and faculty the biggest gift of all — learning — which is why all finals will be scheduled on Dec. 25, effective immediately. ubyssey.ca/humour/ubc-m...

Emily Tang has loved governance since long before she got involved with UBC’s Graduate Student Society. She thinks her passion started in elementary school, when she was involved in student council. But politics aren't everything to the master’s student. ubyssey.ca/features/emi...

Every season of Gilmore Girls has one dedicated holiday episode and every rewatch, I reconfirm my opinion that season 2, episode 10 “The Bracebridge Dinner” is the best of them. ubyssey.ca/culture/twel...

This holiday season, I was hoping for more Muppet-induced joy. But with Letters to Santa, that spark just wasn’t present the way it had been in the past. ubyssey.ca/culture/twel...

Nearing the end of the fourth quarter, UBC held a slim lead against the UBCO Heat — but with 52 seconds left, a foul call would seal their defeat, sending the 'Birds to their third straight loss. ubyssey.ca/sports/women...

The Board of Governors voted to increase tuition fees by two per cent for domestic students and between two and four per cent for international students at their last meeting of 2025. ubyssey.ca/news/from-th...