C Icart
Displacing houseless people isn’t a solution, it’s violence
October 10, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer It’s been over two months since Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services ordered all tents in Hastings Tent City be removed. Since then, increased efforts for forced decampment have been taking place in the Downtown Eastside. Street sweeps on East Hastings Street have been carried out by the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) and municipal workers. They target unhoused residents of the Downtown Eastside and take their belongings. Displacing vulnerable community members, many of whom are Indigenous, is violence. The #stopthesweeps movement emerged to denounce the violence carried out against Downtown Eastside residents by the VPD. The tent…
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Connect the Lingo
October 9, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer The term for when a baseball/softball player hits a single, double, triple, and home run in the same game. In volleyball, a player is referred to as (a) ______ if they move with the wrong…
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The Five Vengeances is a badass play
October 6, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer The Five Vengeances (T5V) is an action-packed play by Affair of Honor, a “fight and movement based theatre company” at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. The production combines the work of playwright, Jovanni Sy…
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Here’s what you missed on Riverdale
October 5, 2022By: C Icart, staff writer There are currently 117 episodes of Riverdale. I have seen all of them. Any ridiculous plotline you can possibly think of has probably been done. At this point, I don’t think any of us can…
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Letter to a legend: Watching Serena Williams for the last time
October 1, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer Serena Williams won her first major title at the US Open in September 1999. She was 17, and I was six-months-old. By the time I started watching tennis with my parents, Williams’ reputation at the…
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The memefication of the Queen’s death
September 28, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of colonialism, genocide, and sexual assualt Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ is dead and I feel like I’m one of the only people who didn’t find out through a meme. On the morning of…
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SFU Dining Commons: New look, same culinary experience
September 20, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer The Dining Commons is finally open! It boasts 28,000 square ft, 500 seats, and took $26 million to construct. But does it live up to the hype? Not really. I had already moved out of…
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SFU professor conducts study on men who experience domestic violence
September 20, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer Dr. Alexandra Lysova is the 2022 recipient of the Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy. The associate professor in the SFU School of Criminology earned this prize for her research on intimate…
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Top five ways to figure out what to do when you walk into the wrong classroom
September 19, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer The fall semester has started, and students are again faced with the tremendous challenge of finding the right classroom. We’ve all done it. Confidently walked into a lecture hall, sat down in the front row…
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(Re)Approaching Accessibility: COVID-19 long haulers won’t teach us anything new about disability
September 6, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer Long COVID could change the way we think about disability in Canada, but it probably won’t. It’s been over two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Although vaccines were created and administered, there’s still so…
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