In March, the number of post-secondary working students (aged 15-29) dropped by 28% from February, due to COVID-19. The federal government announced emergency responses to help the post-secondary community during the pandemic, namely the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB). CESB provides $1,250 per month for eligible students from May to August and $1,750 for students…
Loosely based on a true tale, the show follows a group of students as they come together for the first time to create a short film.
A group of friends from BCIT Journalism school are given the opportunity of a lifetime, but when tempers are flared, ticks are contrasted, and friends become enemies, the winner of the internship could be anyone.
Abandoned by his mother as a child, Jason is a teacher whose girlfriend is on a humanitarian mission.
Are you ready to vote? Municipal elections are just about a month away, so we here at Link Mag thought we’d give you guys the rundown about things you should probably do to get prepared for them. Can I vote? It depends. If you’re eighteen or older, a citizen of Canada, and have lived in your…
On September 2nd, you may have had a chance to meet some of your Link Magazine (Twitter: @linkBCIT) team in the Great Hall! If you didn’t get the chance, you can still come out and visit them at the following dates and events: Friday, September 5th – BCITSA Day – SE2 (Great Hall) –…
Writer Ria Renouf takes a look at the history of drinking games that may have begotten Neknomination.
With the recent string of sexual assaults at UBC, university and college campuses in the lower mainland have taken extra security measures to make sure their staff and students are safe at all times. The consensus among BCIT students is that they generally feel safe on campus. “I feel like the attacks that have happened…
The sixth We Day took the stage at Rogers Arena on October 18 and featured an all-star line up of speakers and live performances. Hosted by MTV’s Aliya-Jasmine Sovani and Scott Willats, big names in Canadian music included Avril Lavigne, Hedley, and Down With Webster. Roughly 20,000 students from as far away as the Yukon…
BCIT has apologized after mistakenly sending the personal information of 134 students to 22 other BCIT students through e-mail on August 26, 2013. After a privacy breach in June 2012 (unrelated to the incident on August 26) where personal medical records of more than 12 thousand students were accessed by an unauthorized third party, BCIT reviewed security…
Tap on, tap off. Those four words sum up how BCIT students will be taking transit in the near future. There’s no set date as to when, but BCIT students will be scrapping their paper U-Pass cards for the new smart card. According to spokesperson for Translink, Derek Zabel, once students have the new Compass…