A Fate Worse Than Death

In Canada, it’s called the Special Handling Unit. Most prisoners know it as the SHU, or by its colloquial titles, such as “the hole”...

How to be an SFU student

Buy Some Boots — Good Boots Getting ready for the fall at SFU can be an exciting time. There’s always an electric buzz in the...

The What?

Before I ever set foot onto SFU’s Burnaby campus, I already had a fully-formed mental image of how my future school would look. “It’s...

Vanquished Vancouver

Despite never having a “Vancouver proper” postal code my whole life (unless you count fetal development), I’ve always considered Vancouver and not wherever I...

Let them eat, period.

Apologies to minorities on behalf of a nation don’t mean much when the nation’s leader contradicts them in public statements shortly after; they mean...

Justice gone South

It feels almost as if you’ve heard the plot of a made-for-TV movie about a plucky underachiever with outsized dreams. Old George, eyes sparkling...

Staying together for the kids

I’m not a child of divorce. At least, not yet. I never thought I would be, until  last Saturday when my father called me...

5 inspirational women you should know about

Coming from a country like Pakistan, I believe any woman who challenges the status quo and breaks out of the patriarchal chains she was...

Rolling in the steep

On a day much like today, Chinese Emperor Shen Nung was casually drinking a bowl of hot water when, out of nowhere, a tea...

There’s a beer for that

Summer is here, so let’s enjoy some beer, shall we? You might want to put this on your fridge, or maybe study it and...