Angela Shen
Don’t tell me to “go to therapy”
March 17, 2023By: C Icart, Staff Writer These days, telling someone to “get therapy” or “get help” is such a common read. But even when said with good intentions, saying this to someone unprompted is kind of rude. Don’t get me wrong, the openness with which Gen Z talks about mental health and therapy is a good thing. It contributes to destigmatizing these topics. However, it’s also led to some disturbing trends. Somewhere in the sea of jokes and memes about men needing therapy, we lost our way. Now, it seems like instead of just appreciating when therapy works for us or…
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February 20, 2023By: Angela Shen [caption id="attachment_124637" align="aligncenter" width="720"] ILLUSTRATION: Angela Shen / The Peak[/caption]
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February 15, 2023By: Angela Shen [caption id="attachment_124597" align="aligncenter" width="2260"] ILLUSTRATION: Angela Shen / The Peak[/caption]
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The Seawall is detrimental to the environment and our wallets
January 12, 2023By: C Icart, Staff Writer Several significant weather events have characterized the past few weeks in Vancouver. It all culminated with king tides: “extremely high tides that happen about twice a year when the sun and moon’s gravitational forces reinforce…
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October 31, 2022By: Angela Shen [caption id="attachment_123670" align="alignleft" width="318"] ILLUSTRATION: Angela Shen / The Peak[/caption] [caption id="attachment_123669" align="alignright" width="316"] ILLUSTRATION: Angela Shen / The Peak[/caption]
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The United Nations has some trouble putting out fires on their Security Council
October 30, 2022By: Clarence Ndabahwerize, Staff Writer NEW YORK —The Dag Hammarskjöld Library at the United Nations burnt to the ground after it caught fire. Extraordinarily, no one was hurt, but the loss was immense. While observers thought some kind of jurisdictional…
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Local student disappointed that icebreakers don’t involve actual ice (and other literal disappointments)
October 7, 2022By: Clarence Ndabahwerize, Staff Writer VANCOUVER — A student showed up to an icebreaker at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts with an ice pick and giant ice cube. Onlookers described initially being in shock until they found out the…
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The fallen members of Vancouver’s sports world
September 12, 2022By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor The Vancouver Grizzlies (1995–2001) We can’t start talking about forgotten Vancouver sports teams without starting with the Grizzlies (aka the team with the perfect powder blue jerseys people love to parade around in downtown). In…
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Growing up unaware of my autistic identity
July 18, 2022By: Olivia Visser, Staff Writer The concept of neurodiversity was not widely discussed when I was growing up. People were either normal or they were weird. There was no nuance to this conversation, nor any way to approach our differences…
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