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Hear me out cake: font edition
September 13, 2026By: Rehma Adnan, Contributor There are times where I’m down so bad that the way letters are shaped mean more to me than what they spell. In moments like this, I have no one to blame but the certain fonts who have seduced me to the point of obsession. Hear me out about the following fonts. GT Walsheim Starting out with probably my favourite font of all time. Smooth yet geometric, it’s sexy but strong at the same time. Walsheim seems like the type to show up on a first date and bring you to one of those fancy dim…
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Opinions-in-Chaos: Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?
July 19, 2026By: Petra Chase, Features Editor and Mason Mattu, Humour Editor As SFU’s independent student newspaper, The Peak is committed to highlighting the concerns of our local community. This week, our team decided to settle a decades-long rivalry between Bob and…
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Using Canvas means we have 9,000 eggs in one basket
May 24, 2026By: Corbett Gildersleve, Opinions Editor It’s been an interesting few weeks since SFU announced that there was a cyber-related incident affecting Canvas Cloud on May 5. An estimated 9,000, some during their exam period. ShinyHunters claimed they had information from…
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Relying on GenAI to write is a shortcut that sacrifices authenticity
May 22, 2025By: Zainab Salam, Staff Writer As a university student, the past few years have been odd. When I began my university career, the concept of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) felt like a futuristic thing that someone like me, who doesn’t…
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Can news platforms build trust in a fractured world?
May 12, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer We find ourselves in a world where news media thrives on crises. Headlines are designed to scare, intimidate, divide, and most of all, keep us clicking. Across the world and he political spectrum, people are…
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Chinese and Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebrations
January 30, 2025By: Kayle Cole, SFU Student, and Jessica Liu, SFU Student The spiritualism of Vietnamese celebrations — Kayle Cole My Lunar New Year celebrations start when my mother calls her Vietnamese fortune teller to ask questions about everybody in the family.…
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Community Days at SFU
January 13, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer, Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture Editor Editor’s note: The Peak acknowledges that Chloë Arneson, who was interviewed, was a News Writer for The Peak in 2023. However, the writer and editor of this piece…
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Buy your orange shirt from Indigenous creators
October 1, 2024By: Abigail Streifel, SFU Student Content warning: mentions of residential schools. As we head into late September, we’re hearing more and more about the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The statutory holiday, which falls on September 30 and coincides…
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How a beloved Palestinian restaurant planted its roots in Vancouver
September 13, 2024By: Tam Nguyen, Staff Writer On a sunny Tuesday afternoon, I strolled around the vibrant neighbourhood of Hastings-Sunrise while on my way to meet Tamam and Sobhi Al-Zobaidi, co-owners of Tamam: Fine Palestinian Cuisine. Squeezed among tax offices and banks…
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New plan protects Blueberry River First Nations land and upholds Treaty rights
June 19, 2024By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer, and Petra Chase, Editor-in-Chief On May 30, the BC government and Blueberry River First Nations announced a three-year pilot plan to support Indigenous land restoration and protect Treaty rights. The Gundy High Value 1 Plan…
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