DIE Board Ruling

Navneet Chand, Associate Chief Tribune (Chair) Hiba Khan, Tribune Alicia Revington, Tribune

Alleged unfair treatment by Elections Office and appeal of CRO decision

Application dismissed

Witnesses for appellant and respondent were given anonymity to the public by DIE Board panel due to safety concerns

CRO decision overturned

Appeal Dismissed

Sarah Rhydderch, Chief Tribune Navneet Chand, Associate Chief Tribune Hiba Khan, Tribune

Appeal Dismissed

Appeal Dismissed

Associate Chief Tribune (Chair) Leighten Janzen, Associate Chief Tribune Navneet Chand, Tribune Hiba Khan

Elections office seeking guidance on appropriate penalties for an unidentified campaign's interaction with unacceptable behavior by a third party

Associate Chief Tribune Olive Bensler, Tribune Hamza Mandour, Tribune Jordan Korol, Tribune Leighten Janzen, Tribune Rebekah Mitchell

Application denied

Associate Chief Tribune (Chair) Scott Parker, Chief Tribune Sarah Rhydderch, Tribune Kamryn Wiest

Councilor is eligible

Associate Chief Tribune (Chair) Scott Parker, Chief Tribune Sarah Rhydderch, Tribune Kamryn Wiest

The applicant requests members who abstained from voting have the opportunity to motion to reconsider regarding the resubmission of a hearing application

Those who abstained from voting barred from motion to reconsider

Associate Chief Tribune (Chair) Olive Bensler, associate chief tribune Scott Parker, Tribune Rebekah Mitchell

Abilities of The board based on Bylaws in regards to removing a councillor and the status of The Board as an organization of the students union

Chief Tribune Sarah Rhydderch, associate Chief Tribune Olive Bensler, Tribune Hamza Mandour

Application denied

(Chair) Sarah Rhydderch, Chief Tribune Scott Parker, Associate Chief Tribune Hamza Mandour, Tribune

Application rejected

Application denied

Christian Zukowski, Chief Tribune (Chair) Kienna Shkopich-Hunter, Tribune Emily Stolz, Tribune

Yes the applicant violated the bylaw

Kyle Ramsey, Associate Chief Tribune (Chair) Kienna Shkopich-Hunter, Tribune Emily Stolz, Tribune

Applicants violated bylaw 100(21)

Christian Zukowski, Chief Tribune (Chair) Kienna Shkopich-Hunter, Tribune Casandra Corbit, Tribune

Does applicants circumstances constitute academic or personal extenuating circumstances under bylaw 100? Wishes to be reinstated into council

Application denied

Elections office failed responsibility to mandate that some form of endorsement between candidates must be allowed in this election

Christian Zukowski, Chief Tribune (Chair) Kienna Shkopich-Hunter, Tribune Darren Choi, Tribune

Students’ Council may amend plebiscite questions so long as the
legislative scheme that regulates the creation and renewal of Dedicated Fee Units is respected

Application denied

Akanksha Bhatnagar (President), Eric Kother (Manager of Student Services), Katie Ring (Program Lead, The Landing)

Students’ Union can run this plebiscite while The Landing exists under the Students’ Union

Bylaw does not permit the students union to extend ability to waive petition requirements to other groups

Application denied

Reed Larsen, SU President, Jonathan Barraclough, Student’s Council Speaker Ilyas Gora, Chief Returning Officer Emma Ripka, Michelle Kim, Chair of Bylaw Committee, Nathan Sunday

Appeal approved

1. a,. No b. Yes 2. DIE Board does not have the jurisdiction to answer this question

Violation found, SC speaker to release documents as discussed in hearing, SC address issue with bill ammending how standing orders are created and implimented

Abigail Bridarolli (First Applicant — Not Present)
Kara Farris (Second Applicant — Present)
Syed Mustafa Fasih (Third Applicant — Not Present)
Mariam Hosseiny (Fourth Applicant — Not Present) James Thibaudeau (for Farris)

Appeal granted for Councillors Farris and Hosseiny, appeal denied for Councillors Bridarolli
and Fasih

Karamveer Lalh, Chief Tribune (Acting), Brittany Boyko, Nina Fourie, Gil Miciak, Tor Potter

Application denied

Landon Haynes, Associate Chief Tribune (Chair) Christian Zukowski, Tribune Shridhar Patel, Tribune

SC in contravention of bylaw, sustainable method of translation of bylaws to be created

Landon Haynes, Associate Chief Tribune Dylan Gibbs, Tribune Colin Basaraba, Tribune

Application dismissed

Gaps identified in the bylaws being discussed

Students' Council motion SC2017-06/8a. “Legislation” is defined in Bylaw 100 at section 1(e) as including only “(i) Students’ Union bylaws, (ii) Student’s Union political policies, (iii) Students’ Council standing orders, and (iv) general orders of Students’ Council.”

Application dismissed

Appeal allowed, CRO ruling overturned

Harvir Mann, Associate Chief Tribune, Chair Alin Florea, Tribune Dylan Gibbs, Tribune

Appeal dismissed, disqualification upheld

Aila Jamali, candidate for Students’ Council (Science)

Harvir Mann, Associate Chief Tribune, Chair Asmaa Mohamed, Tribune Ritika Banerjee, Tribune

Appeal dismissed, disqualification upheld

Sam N. Alzaman, Associate Chief Tribune (Chair) Lerina Koornhof, Tribune Asmaa Mohamed, Tribune

Appeal dismissed, disqualification upheld

Election results overturned, re-election needed

$25 fine for failure to report keys should be upheld, other $180 and $40 fine overturned

Sam N. Alzaman, Associate Chief Tribune (Chair) Harvir Mann, Associate Chief Tribune Asmaa Mohamed, Tribune

Appeal allowed, disqualification overturned

Harvir Mann, Associate Chief Tribune, Chair Catherine Fan, Tribune Ritika Banerjee, Tribune

CRO ruling upheald

Cory Hodgson, Students’ Union Vice President, Operations & Finance

Harvir Mann, Associate Chief Tribune, Chair Catherine Fan, Tribune Taylor Wong, Tribune

The panel rejects the interpretation of Bylaw 100 Section 15 referring to standing committees having the authority to remove members by inserting clauses of standing orders

CRO Ruling overturned, appellant not disqualified

Dylan Hanwell, applicant and candidate for VP External

CRO ruling upheld, no punishment

Harvir Mann, Associate Chief Tribune, Chair Cian Hackett, Associate Chief Tribune Zafir Kanji, Tribune

Lau to pay a fine for pre-campaigning in order to counter balance

No pentaly issued to Lau

Brent Kelly, witness Bashir Mohamed, witness William Lau, witness, Intervener(s): Sangram Hansra, Candidate for Undergraduate Board of Governors
Representative

Applicant violated bylaw, nomination package null and void

Candidates who include their slate name are considered Joke Candidates

Dustin Chelen, Students’ Union Vice President, Academic

Cian Hackett, Associate Chief Tribune, Chair Harvir Mann, Associate Chief Tribune Catherine Fan, Tribune

There are options other than derecognition if an Association does not meet its Conditions of
Probation, applicants bylaw interpretation acceptable

Persecution of Council Administration Committee in-camera meeting

Concillors discretion to vote or abstain

Ruling upheld, applicant denied candidacy

CRO ruling upheld

Sean Wallace, Chief Tribune Drew Jordan-Maharaj, Tribune Mary McPhail, Tribune

DIE ruling to be clarified, proxy dependent on scenario

Panel hearing upheld

definition of “record” as found under the Personal Information Protection Act, when the SU responds to information
requests, it is their responsibility to label information as public or confidential, if there is a dispute
whether the release of a record reveals in camera proceedings or
compromises the SU’s legal position, and that dispute results in a
DIE Board hearing, the SU will need to prove their claims to the Panel in an in camera hearing

Ryan Bromsgrove, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of The Gateway Scott Fenwick

Intervener(s): Farid Iskandar, Chief Returning Officer of the Students’ Union
Others: Colten Yamigishi, President of the Students’ Union
Justin Williams, Director of Research and Political Affairs of the
Students’ Union

Students council violating student union bylaw, bylaw committee violating students union bylaw, organizations and class fees

No violation found

Brent Kelly, Undergraduate Board of Governors Representative

Bylaw interpretation - opt-out of class C and D fees via email

Email is suitable for optout option, optout is determined by the organization administering the recipts for optout

the 15 day period in bylaw 2300 refers to 15 business days only, not to follow 15 day rule if the election falls on a statuatory holiday or on weekends

Cian Hackett, Associate Chief Tribune, Chair Eve Coppinger, Tribune Drew Maharaj, Tribune

Persecution against Ms. Bui, proposed respondent

Ms. Bui, a science councillor, was found to actually be in the faculty of education. Hearing is to determine what must be done

Ms. Bui is not eligible for Science councillor position, will be removed

Sean Wallace, Chief Tribune Giselle General, Associate Chief Tribune Rena Chen, Tribune

Numerous, see file

Review of bylaw 0100(19), institute into bylaw time window in which a motion can be challenged by the DIE board, institute a remedial policy that would allow members of Students’ Council to retroactively change their vote in exceptional circumstances, such as a conflict of interest or other bylaw violation

Numerous, see file

Megan Mickalyk, Chief Tribune (Chair) Kathleen Elhatton-Lake, Associate Chief Tribune Eve Coppinger, Tribune

CRO decision upheld

When the issue is severe enough the CRO has an obligation to make a ruling despite the report being submitted outside of the 12hr window as a matter of fairness

Respondent Yu told students not to trust fellow candidate Roberts following her speach in a class, and to vote for Kusmu instead

Volunteers are bound by the same rules as candidates - Kusmu is not disqualified from the election (Actions not seen to be malicious), but Yu was fined $47.10

Farid Iskandr, Vice-President External University of Alberta SU

If the student councillor's second position is due to their SC position then they are required to take time off of the second position. If it is indipendent then they are not required to take a leave of absense - SC members taking leave of absense to run in an election are not allowed to appoint a proxy for their positions

Kathleen Elhatton-Lake, Associate Chief Tribune, Chair; Joanna Waldie, Associate Chief Tribune; Tim Mallett, Tribune

Deadline will not be extended as long as there is one candidate, 'position' as the title of the faculty role

When “None of the Above” is declared victorious, all subsequent seats appear to also be left unfilled, as the Bylaw declares that no further candidates can be declared victorious

Megan Mickalyk, Chief Tribune, Chair; Kelsey Norton, Tribune;Tim Mallett,Tribune

The CRO is unable to hold additional positions within the SU

Megan Mickalyk, Chief Tribune, Chair; Joanna Waldie, Associate Chief Tribune; Tim Mallett,Tribune

candidates cannot form “slate-like” campaigns to the extent that such
activity would result in profiting off of one another’s resources, the same volunteer can do general labour for different candidates

15 issues must be released within the fall and/or winter terms

CRO ruling regarding elections and slates - intra-faculty branches of slates be disbanded, candidates remove any slate position off of their campaign

CRO decision upheld

Alena Manera, Chief Returning Officer, Student’s Union

Bylaw does not provide any inference that slates are to be exempt from s. 39(1)

Scott Fenwick, Deputy Returning Officer, Students’ Union

Intervener(s): Colten Yamagishi, VPSL Candidate; David McBean, VPSL Candidate; Craig Turner

Movement of vote day - concerns for low voter turnout

New by-election will take place with the 2011 General Council Election

CRO acted wrongfully, no apparent way to remedy the solution other than a re-election

Blaw overturned - rule be implemented requiring candidates to submit their materials by a specific deadline

Language not consistent, CRO to update materials

Ashvin Singh, Chair, Acting Chief Tribune Kathleen Elhatton-Lake, Tribune Mary McPhail, Tribune

CRO decision appealed

Election results overturned

Sarah (Zhuyin) Zhao, Pharmacy Students Council Candidate

CRO decision appealed

CRO under Bylaw 2000 has no powers to deal with actions taken by an unregistered party in a campaign

Jon Osborne; Campaign Manager for Millennium Villages YES; Ruby Sakar, side member for Millennium Villages YES

Paul Chiswell, Associate Chief Tribune, Chair; Alexander Witt, Tribune; Chris Le, Tribune;

Fine reduced from $100 to $50

Does Bylaw 2000 permit candidates, slates and sides to seek endorsements from "public figures" who are not students at the University of Alberta

Campaigns are permitted to seek endorsements from outside the SU but must meet the other requirements of bylaw 2000 when communicating these endoresements

Jason Morris, Chief Tribune, Chair Brandon Mewhort, Tribune Christiaan Conradie, Tribune

Bylaws are to be followed accordingly

Paul Chiswell, Associate Chief Tribune, Chair; Amy Sanderson, Tribune Kurtis Streeper, Tribune

Must student councillors take a leave of absense from students council if they want to serve as a campaign manager for a referendum/plebiscite side

Leave of Absense is not required of student councillors

Mr. Murphy's application of candidate in the executive election was denied due to failure to take a leave of absense from current position

CRO ruling appealed, Mr. Murphy may continue with candidacy

Ms. Beverly Eastham, Represented by her agent Mr. Scott Nicol

Dane Bullerwell (Associate Chief Tribune and Chair) Jason Morris (Chief Tribune) Kurtis Streeper

Ms. Eastham's application of candidate in the executive election was denied due to failure to take a leave of absense from current position

CRO ruling appealed, Ms. Eastham may continue with candidacy

CRO ruling appealed - Stamp approved

executive' should be read as “member of theExecutive Committee”, or “Executive Committee” excluding the Board of Governors Representative

confusion regarding SU exec committe member and eligibility to serve as a campaign member of a referenda/plebiscite under their title

Beverly Eastham, Vice President (External), Students’ Union

Meaning of and scope of “fiduciary
responsibility to the Students’ Union” as stated in bylaw 2000 s. 13(4) as well as iteraction/relation of the students unions fiduciary responsibility and the students union mandate and the SC standing mandates or that as outlines in the post secondary learning act

In the context of Bylaw 2000, ‘fiduciary responsibility’ refers to the Student Council’s obligation to preserve the financial security and assets of the Student’s Union. It does not give rise to a ‘fiduciary obligation’ in the context of Canadian law