With the election drawing nearer, each candidate is striving for a platform of openness and communication.
This year’s Commerce Society (ComSoc) executive election for the 2026-27 academic year is uncontested, with Triple A running as the sole slate. The team is composed of Presidential candidate Amber Graham, Vice-Presidential (Operations) candidate Alexa Melo, and Vice-Presidential (Student Affairs) candidate Ava Tan, all Comm ’27.
All three members of the election team have spent the last two years involved in ComSoc. Graham currently serves as the Clubs Commissioner, Melo currently serves as Ombudsperson under the Student Affairs Assembly, and Tan holds the position of Advisory Board Director for the Student Affairs Assembly.
While members are currently on exchange, The Journal was able to receive written statements from Team Triple A and further clarification on their plans from their digital platform. The team’s platform relies on three main pillars—accessibility, advocacy, and accountability.
Accessibility
Some common themes of accessibility in Team Triple A’s election outline are the usage of different platforms, creating channels for communication and developing training packages.
In Tan’s electoral plan, she specifically mentions using the ComSoc Instagram page for better visibility and event awareness, and the resurrection of the “Humans of Goodes” Instagram page to highlight student activities and opportunities.
This aligns with her commitment to also improving communication, stating to The Journal, “quick changes to compile resources and ensure contact information is updated on all sites and platforms will reduce confusion and ensure students can connect with us.” She also pledges to compile mental health, EDII, and international student resources within the ComSoc Instagram’s Linktree, alongside further developing the ComSoc Shop to make it more efficient and easier to navigate.
They also aim to enact bi-weekly Assembly meetings, individual Portfolio meetings when necessary, and an undetailed plan to expand accessibility for Assembly meetings to encourage broader representation.
Advocacy
Instead of attempting to fit all ComSoc students into a single box, the slate frames advocacy as a response to the needs of as many students as possible, primarily through policy revision and responding to feedback. This approach emphasizes the team’s stated priority of “creating a space where students’ voices are heard, and their interests are advocated for.”
The team plans to review both the 2021 EDII Action Plan and ComSoc Equity Framework to simplify rules and adapt policies when appropriate.
There is a specific mention of uplifting Indigeneity in the program, as well as a continued effort to support Indigenous voices, but no further clarification was given.
Accountability
Team Triple A structures their promise for accountability around structured feedback and team collaboration, emphasizing both academic and financial processes.
Academically, they proposed collecting student feedback on core courses and examinations for the commerce program, with the goal of better representing student concerns in discussions with faculty. Financially, they will make sure they stay accountable through close budget surveillance with regular meetings to achieve approval.
Above all, the team identifies communication as the area most in need of improvement. In their statement to The Journal, Team Triple A admits that current communication streams are what need to change the most. To address this gap, they proposed the idea of anonymous feedback boxes from students to offer a space to voice feedback of any kind.
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The ComSoc voting will take place on Jan. 26 and 27.
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commerce society, ComSoc executive, Elections 2026
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