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

Aditi Dwivedi March 14, 2023

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 B (also known as “the…

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Duo disaster with Canvas

Hannah Kazemi March 5, 2023

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 Aoibheann Doyle, a third year…

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Zoom took me hostage (again)

Carter Hemion November 25, 2021

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 health class. My boss has…

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