Amanda Eng

This is an illustration of two hands passing one another a pack of birth control pills and an IUD
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BC becomes the first province to offer free prescription contraception to all residents

Peak Web March 14, 2023

By: Aditi Dwivedi, News Writer On February 28, the BC government released the provincial budget for the upcoming year and announced its commitment to make prescription contraception free for all people who menstruate  starting April 1, 2023. The current program is a pilot program — it will last for three years, and may be renewed in the future. Katrine Conroy, the minister of finance, allocated $119 million to the program for the course of three years. The program will fully cover contraception options including oral hormone pills, contraceptive injections, copper or hormonal intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUD), subdermal implants, and Plan…

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Duo disaster with Canvas

Peak Web March 5, 2023

By: Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer SFU’s latest Canvas update has students and profs fighting for their lives. The new feature brings the worst of popular language app Duolingo to motivate the way students study and get their work done. Casey…

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The Sports Peakbox: quidditch

Sports January 20, 2022

By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor  Welcome to The PeakBox. I am your host, and resident Ravenclaw, Isabella Urbani. Each week The Peak will answer student submitted questions about sports at SFU. This week, we focused on quidditch. What is quidditch? …

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Zoom took me hostage (again)

Humour November 25, 2021

By: Carter Hemion, Humour Editor October 4  10:27 a.m.: Oh fuck. My transcript stopped working two minutes ago and the text is glitched. I feel like I’m seeing Zoom through those drunk goggles they made us wear in seventh grade…

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