2016

Minutes  

BCPSA 2016 Annual General Meeting, May 12, 2016,

Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC

Call to order

Adoption of BCPSA 2015 Minutes

Report of the President, Andrew Heard

  • Website
  • BCPSA 2015
  • Financially successful, in the end
  • Report sent to Executive and 2016 AGM organizers

2016 Essay Contest Winners

  • Mike Meade Prize 2016 – Sophia Vartanian, Quest University – “Something to Die For: French Foreign Fighters Searching for Identity, Purpose, and Belonging in the Islamic State“
  • Norman Ruff Prize 2016 – Dylan Thiessen, University of the Fraser Valley, “Revisiting the Big Shift: Discovering Shifting Ethnic Vote Allegiances Through a Microanalysis of the 2015 Federal Election”
  • Weller Prize 2016 – Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Simon Fraser University – for Democratic Illusion: Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015)

Treasurer`s Report

  •  BCPSA bank balance $5,580.72 as of April 1, 2016
  • necessity of changing signing authority after elections to Alex, along with Janette and Paddy

Elections for President and Executive

  • President – Alex Netherton VIU
  • Vice President Derek Cook, TRU
  • Treasurer Jeanette Ashe, DC

Next AGMs

  • Douglas College 2017
  • TRU 2018
  • UFV 2019
  • UVic 2020

Move to Adjourn