Campus Beat

2026 SGPS Student Fee Referendum Campaign Profiles

Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat.  It’s Elections and Referenda time at Queen’s University with all manner of student candidates, student clubs, Queen’s University services and a few community organizations currently campaigning for office or for student fees across the AMS and SGPS memberships.  In this episode, the CFRC team got together to read the campaign materials provided by various groups seeking student fees through the SGPS referendum.  Unfortunately, we did not hear back from everyone given the short timeline of release of information from the SGPS about approved groups and were only able to book one interview among the nine organizations on the ballot.  CFRC team members are reading the information provided to us about each group’s campaign in lieu of interviews to provide an opportunity for their message to be heard and they will be read verbatim, sometimes in first person.  It is CFRC’s pleasure and privilege to support candidates and groups campaigning and we thank you for tuning in.  SGPS members are reminded that voting for candidates and student fees takes place on January 29th and 30th.  Watch your Queen’s Emails for ballots and visit sgps.ca for more information about candidates, groups and the elections process.   And now without further ado, we’ll dive in to our interview with Ban Righ Centre about their SGPS student fee campaign followed by the CFRC team reads of campaign profiles for all groups on the ballot.  Thank you for joining us.

2026 SGPS Executive Candidate Interviews

Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat.  Elections and referenda campaign time is now underway for candidates and clubs under the Society of Graduate and Professional Students!  In this episode, we are chatting with SGPS Executive Candidates about their campaigns.  SGPS members are reminded that voting for candidates and student fees takes place on January 29th and 30th.  Watch your Queen’s Emails for ballots and visit sgps.ca for more information about candidates, groups and the elections process.   And now without further ado, we’ll dive into our interviews with SGPS Executive Candidates Alexandra Giff, Tatyana Grandmaitre-Saint-Pierre, Olivia DiPaolo, Olusola Akintola, Sakura Koner, and Mary Arakelyan.  It’s our pleasure to cover AMS and SGPS elections and referenda each fall and winter, we hope you enjoy learning about the outstanding individuals and groups coming forward.  Thank you for joining us.

2026 AMS All Candidates’ Debate

Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat.  Elections and referenda campaign time is still very much underway for candidates and clubs under the Alma Mater Society through January 27th!  In this episode, we are featuring coverage of the AMS All Candidates’ Debate which occurred on Friday January 23rd on the second floor of the new JDUC and also via live stream facilitated by the AMS Media Centre on Youtube. AMS members are reminded that voting for candidates and student fees takes place over three days on January 28th, 29th and 30th.  Watch your Queen’s Emails for ballots and visit myams.org for more information about candidates, groups and the elections process.   We’ll turn it over now to the AMS Elections team to facilitate discussion amongst AMS Executive Candidates Alex McAruthur, Dreyden George, Edward Sy and Avery Popoulidis. Thank you for joining us.

2026 AMS Student Fee Referendum Campaign Profiles

Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat. Amidst all the snow this January, it’s a very busy time on Queen’s campus! Elections and referenda campaign time is still very much underway for candidates and clubs under the Alma Mater Society through January 27th!  In this episode, we are featuring coverage of the 16 campus groups and student clubs on the ballot for student fees during the upcoming AMS referendum.  Due to the timing with which CFRC received information about what groups were going to referendum from the AMS Elections team this January, only one club was able to connect with us in time for recording and broadcast of a campaign interview. CFRC team members are reading the information provided to us about each group’s campaign in lieu of interviews to provide an opportunity for their message to be heard and they will be read verbatim, sometimes in first person.  It is CFRC’s pleasure and privilege to support candidates and groups campaigning and we thank you for tuning in. AMS members are reminded that voting for candidates and student fees takes place over three days on January 28th, 29th and 30th.  Watch your Queen’s Emails for ballots and visit myams.org for more information about candidates, groups and the elections process. In the meantime, let’s dive in to a conversation with one of the student clubs running a fee campaign followed by 15 segments featuring discussion of other student groups on the ballot in the AMS referendum.  Thank you for joining us.

2026 AMS Executive Candidate Interviews

Hello and welcome to another special edition of Campus Beat. We hope the day finds you warm and dry amidst all the snow and cold winter weather here at Queen’s University! And of course, its busy busy busy as Elections and referenda campaign time is now underway for candidates and clubs under the Alma Mater Society right up through January 27th! In this short episode, we are chatting with a few AMS Executive Candidates about their campaigns. AMS members are reminded that voting for candidates and student fees takes place over three days on January 28th, 29th and 30th. Watch your Queen’s Emails for ballots and visit myams.org for more information about candidates, groups and the elections process. And now we’ll dive into conversations with each of the AMS Executive Candidates. Coming up now are our interviews with Presidential Candidates Alex McArthur and Dreyden George, as well as Edward Sy running for Vice President University Affairs followed by a chat with Avery Papoulidis (papu lee dis) who is running for Vice President Operations. It’s our pleasure to cover AMS and SGPS elections and referenda each fall and winter, we hope you enjoy learning about the outstanding individuals and groups coming forward this January. Thank you for joining us.