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