Historic floods devastate communities in Punjab

By: Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer Content warning: mention of suicides. The Indian state of Punjab has been facing severe flooding, the worst since 1988, due to...

SFU study finds that street sweeps reinforce systemic harm

By: Niveja Assalaarachchi, News Writer A study conducted between 2021 and 2023 by SFU found that street sweeps by the City of Vancouver lead to...

BC Supreme Court ruling grants Quw’utsun Nation Aboriginal title over lands

By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer The Cowichan Tribes v. Canada trial spanned 513 days from 2019 to 2023, making it the longest trial in Canadian...

What does Burnaby city council’s new motion mean?

By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer On August 26, the Burnaby mayor, councillors, and residents filed into city hall and found their seats, a regular biweekly...

Pushing for a national N95 masking standard

By: Niveja Assalaarachchi, News Writer On June 20, the Canadian Standards Association, also known as the CSA Group, released a new draft version of CSA...

Meet the BC Green Party leadership candidates

By:  Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer The BC Greens are slated to elect new leadership this month. After losing her seat in the provincial election in...

Survivor of Nagasaki bomb speaks on nuclear weapon abolishment

By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Writer Content warning: graphic descriptions of bodily harm, death, miscarriages, and sickness. On July 21 at the Harbour Centre, SFU International Studies...

Five SFSS full-time union staff receive layoff notices

By: Corbett Gildersleve, News Writer and Hannah Fraser, News Editor The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) has initiated staff layoffs, with five out of eight...

Corporate cuts for the Vancouver Pride Parade

By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer This August, the Vancouver Pride Parade will look a little different. The event, hosted annually by Vancouver Pride Society, recently lost...

TSSU speaks on latest updates to IP policy

By: Corbett Gildersleve, News Writer As recently reported by The Peak, the Senate reviewed and discussed a new draft version of its intellectual property (IP)...