Hello again and welcome everyone to another special edition of Campus Beat airing on CFRC 101.9 FM, streaming at cfrc.ca and on your favorite mobile apps like iheartradio. You can find CFRC on instagram at @cfrcmusic, I’m Dinah Jansen and with me is Abyaz Karim, a Masters student in International Business who has recently joined our news team as the Campus News Reporter, alongside our dedicated AMS student volunteer Jaya Kumar, and Jesse Bell, CFRC’s Local Journalism Initiative Producer and Program Coordinator.

Coming up in this episode as part of Campus Beat’s special coverage of AMS and SGPS elections and referenda, we’re pleased to present conversations we held with each of the Clubs and groups running campaigns to establish, increase or continue AMS student fees during the Alma Mater Society’s elections and referenda taking place on January 29th and 30th. We chatted with or read statements on behalf of 21 fee seeking clubs and groups. In our first segment, we’ll cover groups seeking to establish a new fee including QHacks, the Ban Righ Centre, the Queen’s Muslim Students’ Association, and the Iranian Student Association. Thank you for joining us, we hope you enjoy the program.

Welcome to Campus Beat broad and podcasting from CFRC 101.9 FM. In this episode, host Dinah Jansen alongisde Abyaz Karim, Jaya Kumar, and Jesse Bell present conversations with and read statements from clubs and groups seeking to establish, increase, or continue mandatory or optional fees during the SGPS referendum that takes place January 29th and 30th. All students are reminded that voting occurs online via simply voting and that the AMS and SGPS will send ballots out at 12:01 in the morning on January 29th. You can learn more about elections processes for both our student governments by visiting SGPS.ca and myAMS.org. In the meantime, let’s jump in to our conversations with and statement reads for clubs and groups seeking fees during the SGPS referendum. Thank you for joining us!

Hello again and welcome everyone to this special edition of CFRC 101.9 FM’s Campus Beat with host, Dinah Jansen who is joined by Abyaz Karim, a Masters student in International Business who has recently joined the CFRC news team as the Campus News Reporter, alongside one of the station’s dedicated AMS student volunteers, Jaya Kumar.

Coming up, we’re pleased to present conversations we held with each of the Candidates running for SGPS Executive Offices in addition to statements our team has read on behalf of those who could not join us in time for broadcast. In this episode, you’ll hear from or about 14 SGPS Executive Candidates including SGPS Trustee Candidates Emils Matiss and Nick Mertin, Presidential Candidate Dawood Tullah, Vice President Community Candidates Ava Fiorino, Claire Dobbie, and Tanya Joseph, and also the Vice President Finance Candidate Oishik Battacharya. After that, you’ll year from or about the Vice President Graduate Candidates Ali Fathi, Ikeolupawo Baruwa, and Surabhi Velagala followed by the Vice President Professional Candidates Amir Shetaia, Destine Lee, Megan Roth, and Rit Nanda.

Thank you for joining us here on CFRC 101.9 FM’s Campus Beat, we hope you enjoy the episode.

Hello again and welcome everyone to this special edition of Campus Beat. Coming up in this episode, we’re pleased to present conversations we held with each of the Candidates running for AMS Executive Offices including Presidential Candidates Jana Amer and Nico Brasset Duque, candidates for Vice President University Affairs, Dreyden George and Alyssa Perisa, and the candidate for Vice President Operations, Elena Nurzynski. Let’s jump into our conversation now with AMS Presidential Candidate Jana Amer.

While you’re here, check out our coverage of the AMS All Candidates Debate which took place on January 23rd in Goodes Commons!

Thank you for joining us on CFRC’s Campus Beat and our coverage of AMS and SGPS elections and referenda at Queen’s University.

Welcome to CFRC’s Campus Beat and our coverage of AMS and SGPS Elections and Referenda coming up on January 29th and 30th. In this installment of our special broadcast and podcasts, we have the available recording furnished to us by the AMS of the January 23rd AMS 2025 All Candidates’ Debate, a historic event as it is the first un-slated election of Executives where candidates now run as individuals, not as slated teams of three.

Unfortunately, technical issues encountered by the AMS technical team on the ground in Goodes Commons led to recording issues leading to the loss of introductory remarks, but also the loss of audio quality and feed for a brief period, impacting opening remarks for the Candidates for Vice President of University Affairs and several of their responses to questions. CFRC has taken steps to salvage what content we could for broadcast and we congratulate the AMS tech team on the ground who successfully remediated recording issues about 25 minutes into the debate ensuring the remaining content we will listen to is clear and for furnishing CFRC with the content. Video of the debate is available on the AMS’s Youtube page audio for this broadcast is also available on CFRC’s Campus Beat podcast via Spotify, Apple Music and podcast.cfrc.ca.

As some content was either not recorded or lost due to technical issues, we encourage you to download the Campus Beat AMS Executive Candidates Interviews via podcast.cfrc.ca, Spotify or Apple Podcasts where you can enjoy a full discussion with the VP University Affairs candidates.

In the meantime, following the condensed remarks by VPUA Candidates Dreyden George and Alyssa Perisa at the top of this episode, we’ll hear opening remarks from the Vice President of Operations Candidate Elena Nurzynski who will then field questions related to the VPOPs portfolio.

After that, we’ll hear opening remarks from the AMS Presidential Candidates Jana Amer and Nico Brasset Duque who will also field questions related to the role of AMS President.

The AMS All Candidates debate was facilitated by moderators Andrew Anderson, AMS Chief Returning Officer, and Rebekha Feldman, AMS Chief Electoral Officer.

Thank you to the AMS technical team for their hard work on the ground on January 23rd in Goodes Commons and for furnishing the recording of this historic event.

Thank you for tuning into CFRC’s Campus Beat today and our coverage of the AMS All Candidates debate. We hope you enjoy the episode.

In this special installment of Campus Beat, we continue with our special AMS and SGPS Elections and Referenda coverage presenting footage from the January 22nd 2025 Society of Graduate and Professional Students All Candidates Debate which occurred virtually with an almost historic number of candidates running for SGPS office. Video of the debate is available on the SGPS website at SGPS.ca. The debate was also broadcast on CFRC 101.9 FM/CFRC.ca on Sunday January 26th 2025.

SGPS Deputy Speaker Eileen O’Brien facilitated the January 22nd All-Candidates debate as moderator. Following Ms. O’Brien’s brief introduction, we’ll hear introductory remarks from SGPS Trustee Candidates Emils Matiss, a neuroscience PhD Candidate, and Nick Mertin, a graduate student transitioning from Masters to PhD in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Following their introductions, we’ll hear from Vice President Community Candidate Tanya Joseph, a PhD student in the Faculty of Education, followed by VP Graduate Candidate Ali Fathi, PhD candidate in Civil Engineering and then VP Graduate candidate Ikeoluwapo Baruwa, PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Education and Surabhi Velagala, a Master’s student in Public Health Sciences.

Following their remarks, we will hear from the SGPS Presidential Candidate Dawood Tullah, a 2L student in the Faculty of Law student who is running unopposed followed by Oishik Bhattacharya, a Master’s candidate in the Faculty of Law running for VP Finance unopposed.

Then we’ll hear opening remarks from three of the four VP Professional Candidates starting with Destine Lee, a 1L student in Law, followed by Megan Roth, a second year medical student, and Rit Nanda, a PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies. The fourth candidate Amir Shetaia from Electrical and Computer Engineering did not participate in the All Candidates Debate. Two VP Community Candidates Ava Fiorino and Claire Dobbie were also not present for the debate.

Following each candidate’s opening remarks, they will then field prepared questions from the SGPS, then field questions from SGPS members present in the virtual space, and debate with each other on those questions.

Thank you for joining us here on the Campus Beat podcast for our coverage of the SGPS All Candidates debate, we hope you enjoy the program.

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Nicolas Lamp of the Faculty of Law to discuss breaking news from the United States concerning announcements from the incoming Donald Trump administration that the new President intends to impose 25% tariffs on goods from both Canada and Mexico heading into the US. To learn more about the issues and potential impacts of this proposed policy for Canadians and Canadian industry, we caught up with Lamp, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law cross appointed with the School of Policy Studies, and also serves as the Director of the Annual Queen’s Institute on Trade Policy, a professional training course for Canadian trade officials that is hosted by the Queen’s School of Policy Studies. Thank you for joining us, we hope you enjoy the conversation.

Following this discussion, CFRC Campus News Reporter Ali Al-Safadi covers student-led campus news publications, their role in amplifying student voices, fostering creativity, and building a sense of community.

Hello and welcome to this special podcast featuring the Installation of Shelagh Rogers, 16th Chancellor of Queen’s University held at Grant Hall on November 11th 2024. Chancellor Rogers was installed at the first ceremony of the Fall 2024 Convocation period. The event was live streamed on the Queen’s University website and broadcast on CFRC 101. 9 FM and CFRC.ca from 2:30-4 PM.

In addition to the official installation ceremony, this special episode also includes remarks by Honorary Degree Recipient Kent Monkman and the conferral of degrees in the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs and the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Welcome and enjoy!