Amirul Anirban
Vehicle on fire at Maggie Benston Centre parkade
March 1, 2022By: Yelin Gemma Lee, News Writer On the afternoon of February 10, a vehicle fire was reported at the SFU Burnaby campus. The cause is unknown. According to Andrea Ringrose, senior director of Campus Public Safety (CPS), a contractor saw the first signs of smoke coming from a vehicle in level 7000 of the West Mall Centre parkade and contacted CPS at 2:15 p.m. This is the second car fire incident at SFU. The last incident in July 2021 involved three cars catching on fire at the West Mall parkade. The Peak spoke to Ringrose to learn more about the…
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Gondola town hall presenters share benefits of proposed project
February 8, 2022By: Yelin Gemma Lee, News Writer On January 21, 2022 Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS), Graduate Student Society (GSS), and SFU collaboratively presented a virtual gondola town hall where the external relations representatives from each group delivered a presentation. The…
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Can we please stop using the fucking imperial system
January 28, 2022By Amirul Anirban, Peak Associate; Jacob Mattie, Opinions Editor One pound is sixteen ounces, and one ounce is sixteen drams. Two thousand pounds makes a short ton, but 2,240 pounds makes . . . a long ton? The above convoluted…
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275 faculty and staff call for Indigenous students’ tuition waiver
November 19, 2021By: Karissa Ketter, News Writer Content warning: mention of residential schools in first paragraph Three letters, signed by a total of 275 SFU faculty and staff, have been sent to president Joy Johnson, calling for a tuition waiver for Indigenous…
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BC’s second medical school program comes to SFU
November 16, 2021By: Karissa Ketter, News Writer SFU is in the early stages of developing a medical school program in partnership with the First Nations Health Authority and the Fraser Health Authority. “We want to be a catalyst for change in BC…
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Get Your Drugs Tested helps drug users reduce risk of overdose
November 14, 2021By: Karissa Ketter, News Writer Two years ago, activist and local business owner Dana Larsen opened the Get Your Drugs Tested program to combat the opioid crisis in Vancouver. Since then, Larsen’s company has done over 20,000 drug tests, making…
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The importance and history of vaccine cards
September 21, 2021by Amirul Anirban, SFU Student The long days of quarantine and lockdowns are finally ending, and it is time to get back to our near typical day-to-day life. To help facilitate this return to in-person, all Canadian provincial governments are…
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