Kinder Morgan surveys Burnaby Mountain as potential pipeline site

Canada’s National Energy Board recently issued a review granting permission to Kinder Morgan to study the possibility of running a pipeline under Burnaby Mountain...

New course opens entrepreneurial avenues

A new course offered this fall by two SFU professors will open entrepreneurial avenues to undergraduate students in all faculties. The 200-level introductory course, BUS...

BMO finds half of Canadian parents pay children’s tuition

A recent Bank of Montreal (BMO) study claims that almost half of Canadian parents expect to pay for all or most of their children’s...

Translink announces bus driver barrier pilot project

Translink has announced that it will implement a pilot project to install bus driver barriers on a number of Coast Mountain buses to protect...

Board Shorts

SFSS food bank accessibility In an attempt to make the SFSS food bank more accessible to the SFU community, the board is looking into providing...

TSSU files grievance over international student health plan

SFU’s Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) has filed a grievance against the university based on the claim that SFU is exploiting its international students...

University Briefs

Widower returns to school to study cancer that killed his wife Widower Powel Crosley has gone back to school at University of Alberta to study...

Engineering grad lights up the night with Tron-inspired helmets

Movie magic from the Tron franchise has moved from the mainframe into the mainstream. Thanks to the efforts of SFU engineering graduate Thomas Plywaczewski,...

Third generation Italian-Canadians return to their roots

Using an online survey entitled “Being Ethnic: Third Generation Italian Identity in Vancouver,” SFU research associate, Eva Sajoo, has moved one step closer to...

SFSS club raises Greek life question

The status of Greek life at SFU has once again been called into question, as the SFSS board of directors recently brought the discussion...