Iman Janmohamed

Canada, Toronto, Vancouver

Content editor @GlobeandMail. Previously @Ubyssey. She/her.

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AMS election sees high abstention rates, varied voter turnout

Mar 26, 2025 | ubyssey.ca | Iman Janmohamed

This year, 17.4 per cent of eligible students voted in the 2025 AMS Elections, marking a drop in turnout compared to 2023 and 2024, according to a voting report sent to The Ubyssey by AMS Elections. The election saw three of four referendums pass and candidates elected as AMS executives, to the UBC Vancouver Senate and the UBC Board of Governors — all with higher than normal abstention rates.
New graduate student senator election to be held after initial ballot nullified

Mar 19, 2025 | ubyssey.ca | Iman Janmohamed

The graduate student senator election has to be rerun after an AMS error caused results to be nullified by UBC. AMS Elections Administrator Sansian Tan said due to an oversight error, an incorrectly formatted ballot was sent to students for the graduate student senator race. There were two seats open for election, but the ballot only allowed eligible student voters to select one candidate for election.
Ravens vie for three-peat in national championship rematch against Huskies

Mar 16, 2025 | ubyssey.ca | Iman Janmohamed |Saumya Kamra

After three days of play, UBC campus will see a rematch of last year’s U Sports women’s basketball national championship game between the first-seeded University of Saskatchewan Huskies and the third-seeded Carleton University Ravens. Both teams come to the championship game after being stand-out teams in their conference.
Razia, Wong, McAllister secure Ubyssey Board of Directors seats

Mar 15, 2025 | ubyssey.ca | Saumya Kamra |Iman Janmohamed

Sultana Razia, Jason Wong and Callum McAllister won the three open Ubyssey Board of Directors positions. The Ubyssey Publications Society Board of Directors oversees the business and financial side of The Ubyssey. Board positions are not editor or staff reporter positions. Board members have no say over editorial decisions at the paper such as what The Ubyssey reports on and how the editorial board cover stories.
Candidates discuss improved consultation, VP student life affects at AMS Elections Indigenous Forum

Mar 12, 2025 | ubyssey.ca | Iman Janmohamed |Saumya Kamra

At this year's March 5 AMS elections Indigenous forum, candidates spoke about improving consultation and the role the proposed AMS VP student life could have on Indigenous students at UBC. Candidates from nearly all election races made appearances at the forum, but out of 30 candidates, only 12 attended. Not all candidates participated in the conversation or answered every question.
Meet the Ubyssey Publications Society Board of Directors candidates

Mar 10, 2025 | ubyssey.ca | Iman Janmohamed

Students can vote to fill five seats on the Ubyssey Publications Society Board of Directors in this year's AMS election. The Ubyssey Publications Society Board of Directors oversees the business and financial side of The Ubyssey. Board positions are not editor or staff reporter positions. Board members have no say over editorial decisions at the paper such as what we report on and how we cover stories. Voting is open until March 10 at 8 p.m.Here are your candidates.
The Ubyssey won four national student press awards

Feb 25, 2025 | ubyssey.ca | Iman Janmohamed

The Ubyssey was shortlisted for five John H. McDonald Awards for Excellence in Student Journalism, winning four this weekend at the Canadian University Press’ national student journalism conference. The conference, NASH 87: Persevere, was hosted in Hamilton, Ontario by McMaster University’s The Silhouette. New for 2025 is the Community Service Reporting Award which aims to recognize public interest works that had an impact on a newspaper’s community.
Provincial Elections 2024

Feb 18, 2025 | ubyssey.ca | Aisha Chaudhry |Isabella Ma |Saumya Kamra |Iman Janmohamed

October 19 BC NDP leader and Premier David Eby was reelected for the Vancouver-Point Grey BC legislature seat. October 19 Ahead of the final voting day, Vancouver-Point Grey candidates gathered in the Life Building's Norm Theatre for a debate hosted by the AMS and moderates by The Ubyssey.
Over 150 people sign open letters in solidarity with racialized UBC law professors, call on UBC Allard dean to commit to EDI

Dec 2, 2024 | ubyssey.ca | Iman Janmohamed

More than 150 racialized legal academics and allies signed two open letters calling on UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law to implement equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) practices. These letters are in response to November 14 reporting by The Walrus, which alleged systemic inequities in the faculty, including the exclusion of racialized faculty members. According to The Walrus, racialized professors said they were underpaid, bullied and ignored at UBC.
AMS fails to implement alternative respectful workplace, sexual violence investigative process by self-imposed deadline

Nov 6, 2024 | ubyssey.ca | Iman Janmohamed

AMS Council failed to implement a robust alternative investigative process for its respectful workplace (PC1) and sexualized violence policies (PC2) by a self-imposed deadline of September. TimelinePC1 and PC2 were first passed by the AMS in 2019, subject to review every two years. Policy reviews began in 2021 and were projected to be complete by September 2022.