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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 Israeli government with surveillance data on Palestinians as it carries out a genocide in Gaza. More recently, Google Cloud invested billions in partnering with war contractor Lockheed Martin to provide AI surveillance along the Mexico-US border wall. With bothersome “AI Overviews” now embedded in search results, the depletion of fossil fuels is increasing exponentially, and so is environmental racism —…
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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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