I received a link to a film that was going to be shown at the Goldcorp Center for the Arts, part of SFU's contemporary arts school...And this got me thinking. Had UBC received a similar lurid donation? So I looked around, and yep, sure enough, we at UBC have also received a similar donation. I went to the Goldcorp (http://www.goldcorp.com/corporate_responsibility/sponsorship/) website to see what they had to say, and it seems that they are sponsoring a number of initiatives at UBC. This all transpired after I watched the film, Cry of the Andes, in May. While that film may not deal specifically with Goldcorp, it displayed the wretched way in which Barrick Mining went about manipulating municipal elections, polluting mountain lakes and lands, and ignoring indigenous rights and pleas to leave their mountains intact. Has Goldcorp done similar things? Is UBC part of the plan to buy off people that may otherwise cause a ruckus protesting Goldcorp's involvement in Latin America? Then I came upon this Ubyssey article.
http://ubyssey.ca/opinion/goldcorp-raises-questions/
I agree with what Krissy has to say, and am feeling more and more shame daily, for what I used to take pride in: my university.
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