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SFU celebrates 11-year anniversary as Canada’s leading fair trade campus
Peak Web May 31, 2023By: Eden Chipperfield, News Writer SFU is the only public university in Canada to achieve Fairtrade Gold Status recognized by Fairtrade Canada and Canadian Fairtrade Network. A partnership between an educational institution and fair trade means having a liaison between farmers and consumers to facilitate dialogue, transparency, and respect between the SFU community and the farmers. The Peak interviewed chief commercial services officer Mark McLaughlin to learn more about being a fair trade campus. Being fair trade “requires that all your coffee shops on campus have fair trade products.” The first fair trade coffee shop on campus was Higher Grounds,…
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Features January 26, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer Lower Mainlanders, we were not made for the snow. The week I wrote this, getting to campus was an intimidating prospect. If not the ever-looming threat of being stranded on the mountain, there was also…
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