New transit app attempts to make travel easier

By Graham Cook Next-Bus technology will let users know how close their bus is Padraig Kennedy, an app designer and recent immigrant from Ireland, has released...

UBC laboratory defends controversial donation to the B.C. Liberals

By Laura Rodgers Political fundraising dinners have landed a particle physics lab at UBC in hot water VANCOUVER (CUP) — Political fundraising dinners have landed a...

Virtual Cupid: Dating in the Internet Age

By Esther Tung I’m not a middle-aged man crawling out of a painful divorce. I shower and floss every day, and the very nature of...

SFU receives Fair Trade campus designation

By Kelly Thoreson SFU becomes the second Canadian campus to receive official recognition from Fair Trade, after UBC SFU’s decade-long struggle for formal commitment to providing...

Mandatory gym class for computer science students under fire at BCIT

By Kevin Willemse Students circulating a petition to end the weekly physical education requirement BURNABY, B.C. (CUP) — Computer Science Technology (CST) students at the British...

McCann leaves controversial year behind

By David Dyck Outgoing SFSS president speaks with The Peak about the lockout, the CFS settlement, and more At the beginning of this month, after completing...

Halo webseries filmed on Burnaby campus?

By David Dyck   Last week, overachieving students who were on campus a week early were confronted with Burnaby Mountain yet again being used as the...

SFU Archives release guide to arts and culture records

  By Esther Tung Subject chosen to draw more attention to the archives as a resource It seemed unlikely that a deceased English professor’s files would contain...

SFU director used expense account for B.C. Liberal fundraisers

By Benedict Reiners Payments include $1,000 for tickets to fundraiser for Liberal MLA Harry Bloy Recently, the Vancouver Sun reported that SFU’s director of government relations,...

Softball team earning their stripes

By Adam Ovenell-Carter At times, the Clan softball team has looked like last year’s version of the squad, when the bats dried up and the...