We must choose to rest and re-charge

Today’s jam-packed schedules have become the norm. Most people have to juggle a seemingly endless list of tasks and responsibilities just to keep up...

Brighter Side: Random music searches

Do you ever feel like you’re an NPC after listening to the same artists over and over again? Or do you feel trapped within...

Political apathy is a privilege

Politics drive our world, and refusing to engage in them becomes a political stance within itself. The reality of the matter is that the...

Reading for joy is enough

You’ve probably witnessed it before — someone suggesting, with smugness only a self-proclaimed intellectual can summon, that reading authors like Dostoevsky is the only...

The sweet relief of no final exams

Don’t you just love it when a course doesn’t have a final exam? I know I do. A certain joy overtakes me when I...

Remote learning shouldn’t have been temporary

Who remembers the early stages of the lockdown? Specifically, the second wave? I certainly don’t like to think about the isolation much, but some...

SFU conceals its environmental harms through greenwashing

Every June, SFU’s marketing team paces restlessly in front of their computers in anticipation of the green light. Then, right on cue, they begin...

Anti-South Asian racism is a Canadian issue

I was 11 years old, walking down the street with my mom. We were chatting while heading back home from a game of cricket....

The queer agenda is solidarity

Like many other communities, the queer community experiences marginalization that intersects with various social issues. Some of those issues are related to mental health,...

Brighter Side: The joy of grimdark

The world is not in a good place right now. Between the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the ICE kidnappings in the US, and Canada’s...