UBC wants to double its population - with no local government

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  • čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
  • The University of British Columbia is in the midst of creating a new-use plan, which could add 15,000 people to the region's population. But as Justin McElroy explains, the only people in the area elected by residents have no power over it.
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Komentáře • 92

  • @arianayoung2075
    @arianayoung2075 Před 8 měsíci +25

    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
      @icantwiththis Před 8 měsíci +3

      A luxury mall ..

    • @micrasystems
      @micrasystems Před měsícem +2

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

  • @mondayjoker
    @mondayjoker Před 8 měsíci +14

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

    • @Laissez-faire402
      @Laissez-faire402 Před 8 měsíci +2

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

  • @jq8974
    @jq8974 Před 8 měsíci +24

    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 😉

  • @Xalta_Sailor
    @Xalta_Sailor Před 8 měsíci +11

    Wow CBC forgot to shut off the comments like usual.

    • @BC_Geoff
      @BC_Geoff Před 8 měsíci +3

      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.

  • @prasanthalpha
    @prasanthalpha Před 8 měsíci +33

    The whimsical music is really annoying.

  • @Lamefoureyes
    @Lamefoureyes Před 8 měsíci +8

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

  • @zareeftashfique8168
    @zareeftashfique8168 Před 8 měsíci +4

    UBC stands for… U Bring Cash for a reason

  • @wildandliving1925
    @wildandliving1925 Před 8 měsíci +4

    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

  • @mastersonogashira1796
    @mastersonogashira1796 Před 8 měsíci +19

    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

  • @shem4753
    @shem4753 Před 8 měsíci +17

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

    • @Ferocious_Imbecile
      @Ferocious_Imbecile Před 8 měsíci +3

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

    • @JonnyGee
      @JonnyGee Před 8 měsíci +5

      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
      @mastersonogashira1796 Před 8 měsíci +2

      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
      @shem4753 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@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
      @mastersonogashira1796 Před 8 měsíci

      @@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

  • @Ice_Karma
    @Ice_Karma Před 4 měsíci +6

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

  • @tapper122
    @tapper122 Před 8 měsíci +3

    What a house of cards.

  • @Ynalaw
    @Ynalaw Před 8 měsíci +34

    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
      @amank.7052 Před 8 měsíci +4

      😂😅

    • @mja532
      @mja532 Před 8 měsíci +4

      😂😂😂

    • @kentrutherford8389
      @kentrutherford8389 Před 8 měsíci +2

      That’s because UBC is a mess.

    • @Handle-this-15
      @Handle-this-15 Před 8 měsíci +1

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

    • @Cutlerypotato
      @Cutlerypotato Před 8 měsíci +2

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

  • @emilysheppardart
    @emilysheppardart Před 8 měsíci +3

    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?

  • @ndjubilant8391
    @ndjubilant8391 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Please remove the annoying music

    • @Laissez-faire402
      @Laissez-faire402 Před 8 měsíci +2

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

  • @user-gn7xe9fv6p
    @user-gn7xe9fv6p Před 8 měsíci +11

    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!

  • @ReXox35
    @ReXox35 Před 8 měsíci +25

    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.

    • @Shontaku
      @Shontaku Před 8 měsíci +3

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

    • @aquilesriffo
      @aquilesriffo Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @jq8974
      @jq8974 Před 8 měsíci +1

      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.

  • @kephalopod3054
    @kephalopod3054 Před měsícem

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

  • @Cutlerypotato
    @Cutlerypotato Před 8 měsíci

    That should really help make housing more affordable

  • @rboddington
    @rboddington Před 8 měsíci +10

    Nice to see all the Chinese students wearing masks.

  • @a-bas-le-ciel
    @a-bas-le-ciel Před 8 měsíci +2

    I wrote a book on this subject: chapter one opens with an indictment of the lack of democracy within Universities, Airports and Hospitals, _some of which_ are indeed larger than some small towns -economically if not in sheer population. The book is called _No More Manifestos._ Don't read it. It'll give you nightmares.

  • @ralayilla1324
    @ralayilla1324 Před 8 měsíci +11

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

    • @kanucks9
      @kanucks9 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Bro you are mental.

    • @ralayilla1324
      @ralayilla1324 Před 8 měsíci +5

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

    • @Laissez-faire402
      @Laissez-faire402 Před 8 měsíci +3

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

    • @vancouverviking4652
      @vancouverviking4652 Před 8 měsíci +4

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

  • @mja532
    @mja532 Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @jean-sebastienlevesque1338
    @jean-sebastienlevesque1338 Před 8 měsíci +4

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

    • @JonnyGee
      @JonnyGee Před 8 měsíci +3

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

    • @Squatle
      @Squatle Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @HairVouge.studio
    @HairVouge.studio Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @affreuxgalopin
    @affreuxgalopin Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @alhubele654
    @alhubele654 Před měsícem +1

    Only the rich can afford to live there.

  • @ser9656
    @ser9656 Před 8 měsíci +14

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

    • @marl6908
      @marl6908 Před 8 měsíci +8

      Nope.

    • @thehellyousay
      @thehellyousay Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @Laissez-faire402
      @Laissez-faire402 Před 8 měsíci +4

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

    • @mastersonogashira1796
      @mastersonogashira1796 Před 8 měsíci

      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
      @icantwiththis Před 8 měsíci

      No🙄

  • @squatch545
    @squatch545 Před 8 měsíci +4

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

    • @Toronto_Luddite
      @Toronto_Luddite Před 8 měsíci +2

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

    • @mastersonogashira1796
      @mastersonogashira1796 Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @TalwinderDhillonTravels
    @TalwinderDhillonTravels Před 8 měsíci +1

    NIMBYs complaining about UBC not letting them be NIMBYs

  • @vancouverviking4652
    @vancouverviking4652 Před 8 měsíci +1

    This CBC reporter has he/ him pronouns.😂

  • @marl6908
    @marl6908 Před 8 měsíci +3

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

    • @amank.7052
      @amank.7052 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Huh

    • @marl6908
      @marl6908 Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @ryuuguu01
      @ryuuguu01 Před 8 měsíci +1

      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
      @thehellyousay Před 8 měsíci +2

      Go have another drink.

    • @cinpeace353
      @cinpeace353 Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@thehellyousayYou are so polite. 😁

  • @Make_America_Native_Again
    @Make_America_Native_Again Před 8 měsíci

    We will take back the land.

  • @rishi505
    @rishi505 Před měsícem

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