Opinions in Dialogue: Intersectionality in leftist spaces

By: Olivia Visser, Copy Editor and Michelle Young, Opinions Editor  Intersectionality, a concept coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, notes “that all oppression is linked.” It is...

No, body hair is not unhygienic

By: Michelle Young, Opinions Editor “Eww, you have more hair than me,” said multiple teenage boys during my high school years. While looking back, such...

The erasure of Black narratives persists

By: Michelle Young, Opinions Editor Content warning: mentions of racism and enslavement.  Perhaps we know Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks — but what...

Opinions in Dialogue: The commodification of Lunar New Year

By: Izzy Cheung, Staff Writer and Kelly Chia, Editor-in-Chief Content warning: mentions of racism.  With all the Christmas hype leaving our local malls, storefronts are now...

Displacing the unhoused population dehumanizes an entire community

By: Emma Cosman, SFU Student As temperatures in the greater Vancouver area drop to unprecedentedly low levels, the cold winter days become difficult to bear...

Black people still face barriers in healthcare

By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of medical racism and medical trauma.  In Canada, Black people are at a higher risk of receiving inadequate...

Cancelling “The Runner” shows solidarity

By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Content warning: mentions of genocide. On January 11, Vancouver’s landmark performing arts festival, PuSh, announced that The Runner, a...

The SFSS is a political entity

By: Michelle Young, Opinions Editor On January 3, the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) held a Council meeting. At the meeting, an SFSS Councillor said,...

It’s time to use Indigenous names for places

By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer and Olivia Visser, Copy Editor  Content warning: mentions of colonial genocide. Respecting Indigenous place names is not a matter of Canada’s...

Undermining Palestinian solidarity does not help Jews on campus

Written by: Omri Haiven, SFU Student  Content warning: mentions of war, genocide, and antisemitism.  My name is Omri Haiven, and I’m a Jew who is a...