Bangladesh Students’ Alliance’s Shoroter Mela celebrates the fall spirit

By: Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer On October 25, the SFU Bangladesh Students’ Alliance (BSA) celebrated the fall season with a Shoroter Mela event in the...

SFU’s contracted food service workers stage demonstration

By: Mason Mattu, Section Editor  On November 5, SFU’s contracted food service employees took their lunch break collectively to stage a demonstration, demanding a living...

Student organizations hold strike for Palestine at SFU

By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer On October 23, chants echoed across convocation mall as SFU community members gathered for a campus strike in solidarity with...

Free menstrual products coming to SFU washrooms by the end of 2025

By: Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer A new program to provide free menstrual products will soon launch across all SFU campuses. On the Burnaby campus, dispensers...

SFU students struggle to pay tuition due to BC public workers’ strike

By: Niveja Assalaarachchi, News Writer The BC General Employees Union (BCGEU), which represents over 95,000 workers in the province, began strike action in early September...

Embark Sustainability expresses solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla

By: Niveja Assalaarachchi, News Writer On October 7, Embark Sustainability released a statement of solidarity for the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian-led convoy of activists...

Dining workers speak to poor working conditions

By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer On October 7, a Reddit user posted to r/simonfraser concerning the possibility of a dining worker strike across SFU’s Burnaby...

SFU’s new supercomputer, Fir, is now online

By: Jin Song, Peak Associate SFU now hosts Canada’s fastest supercomputer, Fir. Designed for data and compute-intensive research such as artificial intelligence (AI), Fir came...

UBC tenants group demands protections for housing on campus

By: Niveja Assalaarachchi, News Writer On October 9, the Vancouver Tenants Union’s UBC chapter (UBC-VTU) issued ten demands for the UBC Housing authority. The proposals...

SFU considers leaving the NCAA

By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Today, SFU stands as the only non-American institution in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), while most Canadian schools compete...