December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada. Established in 1991 by the Parliament of Canada, this day marks the anniversary of the murders in 1989 of 14 young women at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. They died because they were women. As well as commemorating the 14…

This year UFV is taking part in the international Giving Tuesday movement on November 29. And the good news is that supporting UFV students on Giving Tuesday just got a whole lot better — twice as good, in fact. UFV will direct unrestricted donor dollars to matching all gifts on Giving Tuesday to student scholarships…

When you see an elite athlete competing at the Olympic games, you get a brief glance into their life. What you don't  see are the years of dedication and commitment on the part of the athletes, the obstacles encountered, and the support team that helped get them to the Olympic games. On December 2, UFV…

What if your school day consisted of waking up in Vancouver’s luxury Waterfront Centre Hotel, where the staff had discreetly inquired whether you preferred feather or foam pillows when you booked, and left exercise clothes neatly packaged on the bed in case you wanted a workout in their fitness centre? What if dinner was an…

How many times have you buzzed down Highway One from the interior to the lower mainland, focused only on getting home as soon as possible? You pass by the historic town of Yale in an instant, and in Hope you might stop for a snack, but not to linger. The mountains and rivers are a…

Four women: all victims of terrorism, all potential terrorists, and all sharing an apartment in multicultural Vancouver. UFV English professor Rajnish Dhawan’s latest play, A Full House, is the story of their coming to terms with their sense of loss, grief, and desire for revenge. Dhawan didn’t set out to write a play with all…

We hear a lot about consumerism this time of year. On the heels of the American Thanksgiving holiday come Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, all days that are focused on supporting the economy by buying material goods. But Giving Tuesday, which comes immediately after these days devoted to consumerism, is all about…

Keenan Beavis is irrepressible. From the age of four, he was going door to door, trying to sell bugs he had trapped in a pop bottle, and succeeding on pure charm. As a teen, he tried — and succeeded at — several online entrepreneurial endeavours. He had his own channel on YouTube in the early…

The second production of UFV Theatre’s “Bright Ideas” season is Morris Panych’s absurd comedy 7 Stories, a directing collaboration of fourth-year students Natasha Beaumont and Courtney Kelley. The play tells the story of a man deliberating suicide on the ledge of a high-rise building who is drawn into the bizarre personal lives of the building’s…

He met Prince Harry. A bomb exploded under the tank he was driving. Stephen Clews isn’t your average UFV nursing student. Clews was the same age as many classmates, 18, when he joined the Canadian Forces in 2003. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2007, he was three weeks into his first tour when an improvised explosive…

Town met Gown at the University of the Fraser Valley’s second annual fundraising dinner on November 9. More than 250 people gathered in the Student Union Building on UFV’s Abbotsford campus to celebrate student success and hear about how the support of donors helps UFV students. Proceeds from the Town & Gown event go to…

UFV is once again welcoming the community to campus with the second annual Town & Gown fundraising dinner. The event on Nov 9 is sold out. Community supporters snapped up more than 250 tickets to this inspiring evening, where they will hear first-hand how UFV is having a positive impact on our community and in the lives of…