AMS All Candidates Debate

Welcome to CFRC’s Campus Beat and our coverage of AMS and SGPS Elections and Referenda coming up on January 29th and 30th. In this installment of our special broadcast and podcasts, we have the available recording furnished to us by the AMS of the January 23rd AMS 2025 All Candidates’ Debate, a historic event as it is the first un-slated election of Executives where candidates now run as individuals, not as slated teams of three. Unfortunately, technical issues encountered by the AMS technical team on the ground in Goodes Commons led to recording issues leading to the loss of introductory remarks, but also the loss of audio quality and feed for a brief period, impacting opening remarks for the Candidates for Vice President of University Affairs and several of their responses to questions. CFRC has taken steps to salvage what content we could for broadcast and we congratulate the AMS tech team on the ground who successfully remediated recording issues about 25 minutes into the debate ensuring the remaining content we will listen to is clear and for furnishing CFRC with the content. Video of the debate is available on the AMS’s Youtube page audio for this broadcast is also available on CFRC’s Campus Beat podcast via Spotify, Apple Music and podcast.cfrc.ca. As some content was either not recorded or lost due to technical issues, we encourage you to download the Campus Beat AMS Executive Candidates Interviews via podcast.cfrc.ca, Spotify or Apple Podcasts where you can enjoy a full discussion with the VP University Affairs candidates. In the meantime, following the condensed remarks by VPUA Candidates Dreyden George and Alyssa Perisa at the top of this episode, we’ll hear opening remarks from the Vice President of Operations Candidate Elena Nurzynski who will then field questions related to the VPOPs portfolio. After that, we’ll hear opening remarks from the AMS Presidential Candidates Jana Amer and Nico Brasset Duque who will also field questions related to the role of AMS President. The AMS All Candidates debate was facilitated by moderators Andrew Anderson, AMS Chief Returning Officer, and Rebekha Feldman, AMS Chief Electoral Officer. Thank you to the AMS technical team for their hard work on the ground on January 23rd in Goodes Commons and for furnishing the recording of this historic event. Thank you for tuning into CFRC’s Campus Beat today and our coverage of the AMS All Candidates debate. We hope you enjoy the episode.