The Canadian Branch of Feminism

BCIT Communications instructor Tessa Jordan discusses the impact of cultural production on Canadian feminist history. Her upcoming book, Feminist Acts, examines how the 1970s women’s magazine, Branching Out, contributed to Canadian feminism.   In the summer of 1975, Rosemary Brown was making Canadian history as the first black woman to run for leadership of a…

Saki Serizawa

photos Dayna Weststeyn A recent report found that Amazon’s facial technology (that even its investors are raising concerns about) misidentifies women as men, particularly when they have darker skin. US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared that report in a tweet, adding “When you don’t address human bias, that bias gets automated. Machines are reflections of their…

IxL Preview: Aanikh Kler

Aanikh Kler will be gracing BCIT’s IxL conference this spring. He talked to Link about his plans to promote entrepreneurship among young people across Canada. One of the first things that people will find out about Aanikh Kler is how he became a successful entrepreneur at age 15. In the years following his meteoric rise,…

raising the roof

 photos Eric Li Across from NE1, students are on a roof, frantically planting as many plugs and bulbs as they can. There’s a deadline to be met today and Dr. Christine Thuring has been racing it from the beginning. As she leads them, she quizzes them to keep their spirits up. “How many species of…

BCIT STUDENT CLUBS — BUSINESS

BCIT JDC West JDC West is the Olympics for business students of Western Canada. In 2016, BCIT was the first Polytechnic Institute to participate in the competition among 12 renowned universities. Each school brings 13 teams to compete in 10 academic case disciplines (Accounting, Marketing, Business Strategy etc.), along with Debate, Social, and Athletic. JDC…

Silver Pen Award 2018

This year, LINK  honours Eda Aktas and Emily Vance with the 2017/18 Silver Pen Award. Both of these BCIT students showed tremendous dedication, growth, and community influence in the work that they contributed to LINK magazine this past year. Individually, they produced pieces on a variety of important issues, but perhaps their most important work came as a collaboration together alongside…