AI is not a magic trick

By: Ashima Shukla, Peak Associate Content warning: brief mentions of death, suicide, torture, and sexual assault. Recently, Billie Eilish shared a post on Instagram about artificial...

Long Story Short: I’m learning to redefine my understanding of rest

By: Ella Pendlington, SFU Student Content warning: brief mention of slavery. I knew beginning university would be a big change. Now that I’ve finished my first...

Temporal, spatial, and interrelational passages from The Lyre 16’s team

By: Clara Xu, SFU Student The Lyre Mag, one of SFU’s longest current running undergraduate journals, published their 16th edition in October 2025. Operating out...

Three music platforms for a better listening experience

By:  Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer  The onset of the 2000s ushered in the birth of online streaming, driven by small tech startups who would become...

A summer Christmas in Costa Rica

By: Maya Barillas Mohan, Staff Writer “Pura vida” is the unofficial national motto of laid-back, cloudless Costa Rica. It is the one-size-fits-all response to life’s...

On cannabis literacy and harm reduction

By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer  We might know about weed only through its either glamorized or demonized representations in media. But what might a more...

The grand history of the spice trade

By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Writer The modern world is full of magic if you take a minute to peek under the hood. One such thing...

Spotlight on SFU Vocal Jazz

By: Julia Nijjar, SFU Student For the past few years, I’ve felt like a soprano singer trapped in the body of a student. How...

SFYou: Dr. Shivaji Mukherjee

By: Niveja Assalaarachchi Editor’s note: In the printed version of this article, The Peak mistakenly noted that Mukherjee is an assistant professor at SFU. This...

Life with type 1 diabetes

By: Mason Mattu, Section Editor  In September 2019, I lay in a hospital bed at BC Children’s Hospital. A nurse hovered over me, poking my...