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Pharmacy Alliance

Save on your all your over-the-counter medicines, and personal wellness needs. Alliance Pharmacy is a leader in providing innovative pharmacy care, with roots in pharmacy dating back more than 50 years. As pioneers of the central dispensing model, they believe in prioritizing customer care as well as patient health. Through cost-saving measures and time-saving services they are bringing a better pharmacy experience to people all across the country.

ISIC holders, or members of the BC Federation of Students helath plans, can use the code ‘CFSBC10’ to receive 10% off your entire purchase (excluding insulin, and prescriptions). Free shipping is offered on all purchases over $29.00, and will shipped to you in three days or less.

Health and Dental

The BC Federation of students helps operate health and dental plans at campuses across British Columbia to ensure students have access to high quality and affordable health and dental coverage.

The Federation works with Green Shield Canada, Canada’s leading not-for-profit insurance provider to provide students coverage on prescription drugs, dental, paramedical services, vision care, among other things.

Want more information about your plan? Visit the participating student union’s websites:

Selkirk College Students’ Union
College of New Caledonia Students’ Union
Emily Carr Students’ Union
Okanagan College Students’ Union
Vancouver Island University Students’ Union
North Island Students’ Union
Students’ Union of Vancouver Community College

BCFS BC Federation of Students Student discount card

Student Discount Program

Being a student is expensive. Tuition fees never seem to stop increasing, rent is out of control, text book prices are outrageous… the list goes on and on.

To help make your day to day life a little more affordable, the Federation and its member students’ unions partner with local businesses to provide student discounts. For the 2018-19 academic year we’ve made the program even easier to access — just use your institution’s student ID! Look for a sticker on the door or window of participating businesses that says “show your student ID here”, and you’ll know they’re supporting students in your community!

DISCOUNTS IN YOUR REGION

Head to your students’ union to pick up a guide to discounts in your region! Or you can download your region’s guide here.

Discount Guide-Vancouver Discount Guide-Okanagan Discount Guide-North

Discount Guide-Vancouver Island Discount Guide-Kootenays

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BC Bulk Purchase Network

Sustainable Sweatshop-Free Swag

Using the collective purchasing power of our almost 200,000 members, the Federation can secure low-cost, but high quality sustainable and ethical promotional materials for student unions to give away to their members for free. Together, we have save student unions in BC thousands of dollars on their bulk-purchase giveaway items.

The Federation, and it’s member locals have given out over 15,000 water bottles, 23,000 pens, 1,000 USBs, 1,500 notebooks free to our members. Want to grab some free BC Federation of Students’ Swag? Visit your students’ union or send us an email!

Members’ Handbook and Dayplanner

Since the late 1990s, the BC Federation of Students has coordinated the Members’ Handbook and Dayplanner service, with the aim of improving the overall quality of student dayplanners and reducing the unit costs of handbooks, particularly for small member locals, through economies of scale.

The handbooks consist of a local-specific section, a section about the Federation, and a calendar and time management pages. The books are produced with full-colour pages, vegetable based-ink, and high quality paper. The Federation subscribes to high sustainability standards, and works with companies who do the same. For several years Mitchell Press has been the printing company for this service; if you’re interested in knowing more about their sustainability initiatives and practices, you can learn about them here.

Need a Members’ Handbook and Dayplanner? Visit your students’ union, or send us an email.

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OOHLALA : Your Campus App!

The BC Federation of Students have partnered with OOHLALA mobile to produce a series of campus applications for our local students’ union. The app contains a campus wall, so you can communicate with your peers, campus information, clubs, events, campaign information, and student discounts. Everything you need to stay in the know on campus, and never miss a free food event ever again.

The application available in the app and google play store, and is free for members to download. Student Unions that are members of the Federation also get to provide the application for free. Find your application below!

University of British Columbia Students’ Union Okanagan
Selkirk College Students’ Union
College of New Caledonia Students’ Union
Douglas Students’ Union
Emily Carr Students’ Union
Okanagan College Students’ Union
Vancouver Island University Students’ Union
North Island Students’ Union
Students’ Union of Vancouver Community College
Camosun College Student Society
Northern British Columbia Graduate Student Society