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January 20, 2014Emergency landing on UBC waters At 3:30 pm on Sunday, a Harbour Air seaplane made an emergency landing in the waters off UBC. The plane was on its way from the Gulf Islands to Vancouver. No one was injured and the aircraft was not damaged; it was towed to shore shortly after the landing. The company’s VP Flight Operations and Safety, Eric Scott, said that there was a mechanical failure…
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Local singer lends voice to SFU recycling campaign
January 20, 2014The lead singer of local band Bend Sinister lent his talents to SFU’s newest campaign, the Zero Waste Initiative, which is looking to greatly reduce the university’s environmental footprint by 2015. Dan Moxon, an SFU alumni and singer from Bend…
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Observatory plans will have students seeing stars
January 20, 2014Watch out, koi pond. There’s a bigger fish planning to make its home on the AQ lawn, and it’s a $4.4 million observatory. With financial support from the Trottier Foundation, headed by Lorne and Louise Trottier, SFU Burnaby will become…
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RCMP responds to threat on Burnaby campus
January 14, 2014Photo by Helen Crofts (@croftsyyy) Students were all atwitter on Burnaby Mountain as the RCMP flooded the campus on Wed. Jan 8, responding to a threat made against the university. On their website and Facebook page, the university stated…
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Seven Essentials
January 13, 20141 Coffee: “For sure.” 2 Exercise: “I try to run if not every day then at least every second day.” 3 CBC Radio: “I’m addicted to CBC Radio.” 4 Email: “I wouldn’t be wholly honest if I didn’t say I…
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Build SFU selects SUB site
January 6, 2014After months of deliberation and consultation with students, Build SFU has chosen the Crossroads site as the location of the new Student Union Building. The SFSS Board of Directors recommended the Crossroads location to the Joint Steering Committee on Dec.…
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Supreme Court of Canada strikes down anti-prostitution laws
January 6, 2014On Dec. 20, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), made the unanimous decision to strike down Canada’s anti-prostitution laws. The ruling was made on the case Canada v. Bedford, brought forward by Ontario sex workers Terri-Jean Bedford, Amy Lebovitch and…
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Community engagement pays off
January 6, 2014Two first-year SFU students are putting our university’s motto of “engaging the world” to practice, as each have been awarded a $60,000 scholarship for their community service while in high school. Now environmental science major Deven Azevedo and biomedical physiology…
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Board reappoints Petter as SFU President
January 6, 2014On Nov. 28, the Board of Governors unanimously approved Andrew Petter’s reappointment as SFU’s President for a second five-year term, to begin on Sept. 1, 2015. The Committee to Review the President Prior to Reappointment surveyed student, faculty, staff, administration…
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University Briefs
January 6, 2014Dino discovery at U of A A team of scientists from the University of Alberta discovered a very well preserved fossil from a duck-billed Edmontosaurus regalis just west of Grande Prairie, Alta last year. What paleontologists find remarkable about…
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