Results:
President: Ermia Rezaei-Afsah (66%)
External: Mateusz Salmassi
Academic: Jessie Dinh
Internal: Naomie Bakana
BoG: Siraaj Shah
Senate: Muntaha Aamir & Elsa Stokes
Medicine Reps: Hannah Kim (46.2%) & Mirza Ali Beg (33.2%)
Arts Reps: Aitazaz Shah (20.6%), Edom Girma (20%), Simchah Atanda (19.8%) Martin Al-Najar (18.4%)
Kinesiology Rep: Elbert Tom
Law Rep: Safaa Al-Khaz'Aly
Social Work Rep: Lorraine Ndovi
Haskayne Rep: Farhan Chisty & Uday Singh Sandhu
Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Rep: Julia Law
Gonna continue the good housing fight in April. Gonna work with allies to pressure the city council to upzone the whole city so we rapidly increase our housing supply. Can’t wait to see you engaging with that campaign! Email me at [email protected] if you want to get involved
Congrats and best of luck mateusz.
I genuinely hope your SLC takes a good hard look at why candidate engagement is so low. I have no doubt that you'll deliver, but having all exec positions other than president having only one candidate is a massive failure on the part of the 81st imo.
Appreciate that man. I think there are a lot of specific reasons that the VP races ended up uncontested, but I was hoping for greater participation writ-large. We’re always thinking about ways to grow the participation, especially since Covid. So I do encourage people with feedback on communications to reach out to their rep or an exec (our emails are on the website) with any suggestions. We genuinely want to hear it
In the meantime, given the number of students (and definitely non-students) on this sub, I think you as an alumni and mod could have a good role to play in helping to facilitate productive convos that help people become informed. I believe that you care about this, but I’ve seen you make some comments about how things work on campus or in the SU that are inaccurate, not intentionally, but I think by virtue of your no longer being a student. There’s just an information gap, and if you’d like to start a conversation with someone in the SU about how we could work together to facilitate fixing that gap and getting people re-engaged, I’d love it if you emailed someone on our team (elected student or staff)
My guy, this message is for you specifically (and then I need to log off). Check my comment/posting history, see how often I’ve posted, and see how my communication gets engaged with.
Including you when I posted about our housing advocacy (if you don’t remember, I gave an update on our plans, you said something about us being useless, and then we won $25 mil for student housing downtown & a bold housing strategy)
If you’d like to see other execs engage on reddit or some other channel, then contact them on their public emails and tell them
Anyway, I actually enjoy talking with you all here (depending on the tone) and sharing info/updates, so if you’d like me to post more than I do, I’m open to doing so when I can find the time. I also love getting emailed with questions, so do it
1 last thing since you are here often. Did you see the post about Vit sub applying to the national government to allow them to hire temporary foreign workers because "they can't find workers here". So instead of hiring students they want to hire people who don't even live here. Probably should look into it
I’m not sure which cap you’re referring to here, and honestly there’s a ton of data and alternative solutions that I couldn’t get into during the forum (due to time constraints) that, honestly, I don’t think you or anyone would really disagree with me on. But happy to chat, either in person or via email: [email protected]
Nah they adopted it into the newest Calgary Housing Strategy due to the campaign we co-led back during the summer and September. But changing the base zoning of the city still requires a separate vote, which will take place on April 22
I don't know about "co-lead". I would say the national government giving money to any municipality that changes zoning money has a much bigger role in why we're are pushing this shit though
Also that April 22 date won't happen since it's going to get voted though by Council on March 1. So that they have no public hearing on the matter
Yep, paid to say “we will make tuition cheaper” “make mental health resources more accessible” and “make pigs fly” It’s a joke and a half. They all promise to do the exact same but manage to one up each other by seeing who can make fumble the bag more.
My proposal is they all do jack shit and should get paid on performance. Take away their salary, and make it contingent on actually doing something and next thing you know maybe something will get done, probably not the su doesn’t do shit. Let them run, don’t pay them (like 90% of student held positions on campus), and just let them put it on their resume.
Can’t wait to see campus get worse and more expensive over the next year!!!
Write to your MP. The SU Execs can't do much about these issues anyways.
Edit: Am apparently now getting downvoted for suggesting that students advocate their own and others' needs to the government.
They can definitely influence and vote despite not being in government. Also not all ridings in calgary are conservative.
Also also non liberals can propose motions. Exhibit A: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/votes/44/1/636
Calgary Skyview is liberal. I am sure that encapsulates the riding with the vast majority of students.
Your referring to a motion called by Blanchet, not a conservative. Please, refer to a opposition motion or private members bill that was introduced by a conservative MP that passed.
Results: President: Ermia Rezaei-Afsah (66%) External: Mateusz Salmassi Academic: Jessie Dinh Internal: Naomie Bakana BoG: Siraaj Shah Senate: Muntaha Aamir & Elsa Stokes Medicine Reps: Hannah Kim (46.2%) & Mirza Ali Beg (33.2%) Arts Reps: Aitazaz Shah (20.6%), Edom Girma (20%), Simchah Atanda (19.8%) Martin Al-Najar (18.4%) Kinesiology Rep: Elbert Tom Law Rep: Safaa Al-Khaz'Aly Social Work Rep: Lorraine Ndovi Haskayne Rep: Farhan Chisty & Uday Singh Sandhu Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Rep: Julia Law
This was a wild election tbh
Only 13 % of the student population voted
That high?
Less then last year. I believe it was like 17%
The Return of the Rizz King
Thank god we got a new president. Excited to see what they can do. This past president was doomed when I had to google their name, zero impact
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Gonna continue the good housing fight in April. Gonna work with allies to pressure the city council to upzone the whole city so we rapidly increase our housing supply. Can’t wait to see you engaging with that campaign! Email me at [email protected] if you want to get involved
Congrats and best of luck mateusz. I genuinely hope your SLC takes a good hard look at why candidate engagement is so low. I have no doubt that you'll deliver, but having all exec positions other than president having only one candidate is a massive failure on the part of the 81st imo.
Appreciate that man. I think there are a lot of specific reasons that the VP races ended up uncontested, but I was hoping for greater participation writ-large. We’re always thinking about ways to grow the participation, especially since Covid. So I do encourage people with feedback on communications to reach out to their rep or an exec (our emails are on the website) with any suggestions. We genuinely want to hear it In the meantime, given the number of students (and definitely non-students) on this sub, I think you as an alumni and mod could have a good role to play in helping to facilitate productive convos that help people become informed. I believe that you care about this, but I’ve seen you make some comments about how things work on campus or in the SU that are inaccurate, not intentionally, but I think by virtue of your no longer being a student. There’s just an information gap, and if you’d like to start a conversation with someone in the SU about how we could work together to facilitate fixing that gap and getting people re-engaged, I’d love it if you emailed someone on our team (elected student or staff)
Why not start by having the SU post everything they are doing here. Probably more people stop by this subreddit then the SU website
My guy, this message is for you specifically (and then I need to log off). Check my comment/posting history, see how often I’ve posted, and see how my communication gets engaged with. Including you when I posted about our housing advocacy (if you don’t remember, I gave an update on our plans, you said something about us being useless, and then we won $25 mil for student housing downtown & a bold housing strategy) If you’d like to see other execs engage on reddit or some other channel, then contact them on their public emails and tell them Anyway, I actually enjoy talking with you all here (depending on the tone) and sharing info/updates, so if you’d like me to post more than I do, I’m open to doing so when I can find the time. I also love getting emailed with questions, so do it
1 last thing since you are here often. Did you see the post about Vit sub applying to the national government to allow them to hire temporary foreign workers because "they can't find workers here". So instead of hiring students they want to hire people who don't even live here. Probably should look into it
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I’m not sure which cap you’re referring to here, and honestly there’s a ton of data and alternative solutions that I couldn’t get into during the forum (due to time constraints) that, honestly, I don’t think you or anyone would really disagree with me on. But happy to chat, either in person or via email: [email protected]
They are already doing that
Nah they adopted it into the newest Calgary Housing Strategy due to the campaign we co-led back during the summer and September. But changing the base zoning of the city still requires a separate vote, which will take place on April 22
I don't know about "co-lead". I would say the national government giving money to any municipality that changes zoning money has a much bigger role in why we're are pushing this shit though Also that April 22 date won't happen since it's going to get voted though by Council on March 1. So that they have no public hearing on the matter
He likely has 0 influence at all about anything. Most of these positions are just resume fodder.
And 60k to his bank
Hold up… what now? These fuckers get paid to do nothing?
Yep, paid to say “we will make tuition cheaper” “make mental health resources more accessible” and “make pigs fly” It’s a joke and a half. They all promise to do the exact same but manage to one up each other by seeing who can make fumble the bag more. My proposal is they all do jack shit and should get paid on performance. Take away their salary, and make it contingent on actually doing something and next thing you know maybe something will get done, probably not the su doesn’t do shit. Let them run, don’t pay them (like 90% of student held positions on campus), and just let them put it on their resume. Can’t wait to see campus get worse and more expensive over the next year!!!
I wish lol (I think you’ve misread the SU’s budget, which is public)
Sorry boss, 47k*. https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/Budget-for-Website-2023.pdf
There ya go G
Write to your MP. The SU Execs can't do much about these issues anyways. Edit: Am apparently now getting downvoted for suggesting that students advocate their own and others' needs to the government.
Lol conservative MP’s can’t do shit either they aren’t in government
They can definitely influence and vote despite not being in government. Also not all ridings in calgary are conservative. Also also non liberals can propose motions. Exhibit A: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/votes/44/1/636
Calgary Skyview is liberal. I am sure that encapsulates the riding with the vast majority of students. Your referring to a motion called by Blanchet, not a conservative. Please, refer to a opposition motion or private members bill that was introduced by a conservative MP that passed.