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Three music platforms for a better listening experience
January 12, 2026By: Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer The onset of the 2000s ushered in the birth of online streaming, driven by small tech startups who would become the exploitative media monopolies we have today. An unsettling prediction of this grim dystopia is Gillian Welch’s 2001 song “Everything is Free,” which expresses her despair towards what the internet would mean for musicians’ livelihoods. 25 years later, Welch couldn’t have been more on the mark. Spotify, the global music streaming giant with over 700 million monthly users, is perhaps the worst culprit, underpaying artists with skimpy royalties that vary between $0.003 and $0.004 USD…
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Documenting my transition away from Google’s search engine
November 9, 2025By: Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer Discussing all the reasons to boycott Google would take an entire article, but the tech giant’s involvement in violent state surveillance projects is reason enough. Project Nimbus is their artificial intelligence project that provides the…
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SFU union referendum on Israel boycott fails
May 24, 2017The membership of an SFU union has rejected a policy to support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU), which represents teaching assistants, tutor markers, and sessional instructors at the university, held…
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Don’t shop at Ikea
September 15, 2014As autumn rolls into Metro Vancouver, I am sure that many of you, like myself, will invest in new home furnishings for your dorm, apartment, bedroom, the list goes on. This semester however, I encourage you to shop Ikea-free. Don’t…
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