Brighter Side
Finding beauty in ordinary nature
November 11, 2025By: Zainab Salam, Opinions Editor Driving up Burnaby Mountain the other day, I was engulfed by a sense of awe at the scenery that surrounded me. The sight of the yellowing leaves dotted with raindrops that sparkled like tiny jewels. And the alluring sheen cast by the fog made the world quiet for a while. It made me think of the everyday beauty that is taken for granted, due to our busy schedules. Some days, even our limited attentional abilities can’t take us away from marvelling at nature’s insistence on being noticed, even in its softest of forms. The fog…
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Brighter Side: Dough-eyed
November 11, 2025By: Sofia Chassomeris, Peak Associate There are few practices I hold in reverence the way I do the art of bread-making. The smell of yeast, flour, water, and olive oil fills the room like the presence of a loved one…
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Brighter Side: Random music searches
November 9, 2025By: Mason Mattu, Humour Editor Do you ever feel like you’re an NPC after listening to the same artists over and over again? Or do you feel trapped within a musical echo chamber, unable to escape the reverberations of the…
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Brighter Side: The joy of grimdark
August 13, 2025By: Corbett Gildersleve, News Writer The world is not in a good place right now. Between the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the ICE kidnappings in the US, and Canada’s new legislation sidestepping Indigenous rights and environmental protections, it’s hard to…
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Brighter Side: Iced lattes
July 30, 2025By: Zainab Salam, Opinions Editor A certain headiness comes with the first sip of a latte. It’s not just the taste — it’s the warmth, the anticipation, the ritual that precedes it. I usually start my day yearning for my…
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Brighter Side: When a song finds you
June 18, 2025By: Rusham Verma, SFU Student Imagine you’re on a road trip wi your playlist on shuffle. Then, that song comes on. Yes, the one that seems like it was made for this exact moment on the road. The windows are…
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Brighter Side: a love letter to children’s books
June 15, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer I first met The Little Prince as a child, but it feels more accurate to say the book met — and saw — through me. It told me that imagination was not foolish, that love…
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Brighter Side: Custom work playlists
May 30, 2025By: Peter Runn, SFU Student Something I appreciate about working for a small local coffee shop is we’re allowed to play whatever music we want. Unlike the corporate-stocked playlists mandated by most retail chains, at least my employer understands not…
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Brighter Side: Romance novels
March 24, 2025By: Dani Santos, Peak Associate There’s nothing like being engrossed in a good romance novel. One minute, I’m on chapter one, and the next, the author is concluding the characters’ story in an epilogue — time can go by really…
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Brighter Side: Art books
March 13, 2025By: Abbey Perley, Production & Design Editor There’s nothing more endearing than the sketches and notes in an art book. Stuffed with lost designs, art books are where artists behind well-loved video games and animated shows release their inspirations and…
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