Schools Building Schools duped us all

Apology In our last issue we published an editorial about student union governance and referenda.  The piece described the process leading to an annual donation...

Thoughts on reclaiming your university

  A few weeks back, I went to a panel called “The Neoliberal University and Globalization”. All four speakers presented compelling arguments about the state...

Economy not all that fragile

  REGINA (CUP) — Careful! By reading this editorial, you might topple the fragile economy! Okay, perhaps that’s a little over-the-top, but the way the Conservative...

A tale of two Scarfaces

  The 1932 Howard Hawks and 1983 Brian DePalma versions of Scarface are only loosely linked by their plot structures, wherein a power-hungry immigrant named Tony works...

Don’t sink the SUB, just this one

When I started at SFU in January 2009, there were whispers of a student union building — undefined, and uncertain, but the possibility did...

First-years excluded from SFSS political ecosystem

The SFSS is having its elections this week, with voting taking place online from March 20 to 22, and by now, most candidates are...

Don’t vote for Renew SFU

I thought I would have been content observing this year’s SFSS election cycle from the sidelines, satisfied that the general tenor of the campaign...

The rise of financial masochism

I generally agree that, as Trudeau famously proclaimed, “There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” Most know this simple...

Abolish the SFSS

These are my endorsements for the SFSS election, but I’m not sure why I’m doing them. That puts my endorsements in league with the...

Federalization, Europe, and the EU

In 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte stated that “peace between European nations would have become easier the United States of Europe a possibility.” Many...