An open letter to the president of the SFSS

By Erin Wyllie Dear Jeff McCann, Thank you for introducing yourself, . It’s the perfect time to let all the students know as you’re on your...

Supply-side war on drugs was and is a failure

By Shaun Fitl (CUP) When the war on drugs is doling out more death than the drugs themselves, is it time to re-evalute decriminalization? WATERLOO...

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

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

Economy not all that fragile

By Edward Dodd   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...

A tale of two Scarfaces

By Will Ross   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...

Don’t sink the SUB, just this one

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

First-years excluded from SFSS political ecosystem

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

Don’t vote for Renew SFU

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

The rise of financial masochism

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