SFYou: Kyle Newcomb of Setiaputra Lab

By: Nitya Khanna, SFU Student Editor’s note: scientific terms followed by an asterisk (*) are defined in the glossary section. Researchers in SFU’s Setiaputra Lab study...

SFSS bars recording at Council meetings, deterring student reporting

Written by Petra Chase, Features Editor with contributions from Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer Editor’s note: The features editor and a staff writer spoke to the...

Black spaces that feel like home

By: C Icart, Co-Editor-in-Chief Last December, I went home to see my family for the holidays, as I do every year. It was a...

Remembering Assata Shakur

By: Zainab Salam, Opinions Editor Content warning: mentions of solitary confinement. Humans of all walks of life leave an imprint as they live. But once they’re...

“Science lost to fear”: BC’s halted drug decriminalization program

By: Olivia Sherman, Peak Associate In January 2026, the BC government announced their drug decriminalization policy “has not delivered the results we hoped for” and...

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...

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...