burnaby
HUMOUR: The statue emporium at the bottom of Burnaby Mountain attempts a radio ad
June 29, 2015Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! This Sunday only, Ital Decor Ltd. — that place with all of the statues you sometimes see while riding the 135 to and from SFU’s Burnaby campus — is having a blow-out clearance sale. Bloooooooooow ouuuuuuuut saaaaaaaaale! A glitch in our inventory system means we accidentally have two hundred cement gargoyles coming in next Monday. Our lot is already at full-capacity and so we’re dealing with this surplus the only way we know how: not by canceling the order, but by throwing a super special, once-in-a-lifetime sale. Sale sale sale! We’ve got everything you need. Little ceramic…
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Study challenges Kinder Morgan economic calculations
November 21, 2014While the legal battle concerning the anti-pipeline protests on Burnaby Mountain rages on, Doug McArthur, director of the SFU School of Public Policy, has co-authored a study examining the public policy aspects of the pipeline expansion. The study, entitled Economic…
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The costumed campus
November 17, 2014“I think the mascot is dead.” That’s all the opposition’s radio announcer could say about what he had just witnessed. It was a timeout in the first half of a Clan basketball game in the spring of 1996, and the…
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SFU Puppy Therapy!
November 14, 2014SFU hosted another puppy therapy event; the dogs were as cute (and calming) as ever!
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VIDEO: SFU community rallies against Kinder Morgan expansion
November 13, 2014Pipeline protests pickup steam, while three SFU professors deal with injunctions filed against them by Kinder Morgan. Check out The Peak's written article about the rally for more information.
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Poll Party
November 10, 2014This coming Saturday, November 15, voters across British Columbia will head to the polls to elect their next municipal governments. Sadly, if past statistics are any indicator, very few people will actually exercise this right, which is even more tragic…
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A SUB of one’s own
November 10, 2014It’s official: after years of careful planning and budgeting, SFU’s Student Union Building (SUB) is going to happen. At the recent Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Annual General Meeting, students gave Build SFU the green light to pursue a loan…
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Community awaits verdict after Kinder Morgan pipeline hearings conclude
November 8, 2014Hearings for the trial between Kinder Morgan and Burnaby Mountain protesters concluded Friday night after three days of discussion concerning the presence of said protesters at the proposed pipeline project sites. Five individuals, including three SFU professors, were named in…
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Survey tracks pass-ups at Burnaby campus
October 6, 2014Next time the 145 passes you by, you can air your grievances online using the SFU Student Mobility Advisory Committee’s (SMAC) bus pass-up report form, meant to track transit troubles on the mountain. SMAC, along with representatives from the SFSS,…
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Forum fosters dialogue around “Education Behind Bars”
October 6, 2014While students often joke about SFU looking like a prison, many real inmates desire access to post-secondary education. SFPIRG’s forum “Breaking the Cycle: Education Behind Bars” on October 1 sought to address this issue; students, teachers, and former inmates came…
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