Alyssa Umbal
Local guy sprints to catch the SkyTrain, knowing damn well the next one arrives in two minutes
June 21, 2023By: Hailey Miller, SFU Student We’ve all seen him — that one guy who causes a scene at the SkyTrain station. The guy who appears out of nowhere and leaps up the escalator two steps at a time. Like a lightning bolt, he sprints through hoards of people in a failed attempt to catch the moving vessel as its doors are already on their way to being slammed shut. Let’s talk specifics here. This always happens at Commercial-Broadway — always. I’ve seen it, you’ve seen it, and there’s no doubt the security cameras have captured it live. At this point,…
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Top ten ways to cancel a subscription
June 7, 2023By: Hana Hoffman, Peak Associate Everything follows a subscription model nowadays. Check your credit card statement; you’re probably paying for something you forgot to cancel after the free trial! I suspect this is what these greedy companies want; us unknowingly…
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I don’t want two-factor authentication
May 18, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer Mission: Impossible — Rogue 2FA Code Whoever developed two-factor authentication (2FA) must have been trying to hide some serious shit. The service requires an alternate method of sign-in, like a code sent to your email…
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Q&A with Accessibility as Creative Practice intern, Keimi Nakashima Ochoa
March 29, 2023By: Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer SFU Galleries is hosting a series of workshops for creatives with access needs led by 2023 Accessibility as Creative Practice intern, Keimi Nakashima-Ochoa. The first workshop, which took place on February 25, was for immunocompromised…
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Connect the Lingo
March 20, 2023By: Natalie Cooke, News Writer Word Bank: goalkeeper, airball, shank, 19th hole, double dribble, muff, cut shot, bunt, meet, nutmeg When a player stops dribbling and then begins again, or dribbles the basketball with two hands, they commit a ________…
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Autism and ADHD aren’t just “trends”
February 28, 2023By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor If you’re a social media user, you’ve likely noticed a rise in posts about autism and ADHD on your timeline. Neurodivergence — the state of having a different brain from those without mental conditions —…
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Connect the Lingo
February 1, 2023By: Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer Word Bank: 20, bullet, pick six, pommel horse, Christine Sinclair, skeleton, Peter Forsberg, football, 10, kiss and cry This athlete holds the record for most international goals. What sport is known as a “game of…
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Connect the Lingo
January 25, 2023By: Natalie Cooke, News Writer Word Bank: goalkeeper, airball, shank, 19th hole, double dribble, muff, cut shot, bunt, meet, nutmeg When a player stops dribbling and then begins again, or dribbles the basketball with two hands, they commit a ________…
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Preventative care is the critical next step for the Canadian medical system
January 19, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer The Canadian healthcare system is struggling. Hospital overcrowding has been a huge issue, creating difficult working conditions for nurses and hospital staff. Physicians are having trouble seeing patients, and Canadian healthcare has been critiqued as…
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Elon Musk does not need your defense
November 24, 2022By: Kelly Chia, Humour Editor If you’ve been on Twitter the last two weeks, you bore witness to Elon Musk reducing the platform to his tantrum sandbox in the name of “free speech,” even protesting that activism is what’s driving…
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