C Icart

Stuffed crochet bear and chick surrounded by fake plants.
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Peakie gets real

Peak Web January 30, 2024

By: Cam Darting, SFU Student and C Icart, Humour Editor Dear Peakie,  I started crocheting to help manage stress, but now there are crochet mushrooms everywhere in my apartment. They’ve taken on a life of their own. Don’t get me wrong; I love having 100 mushroom besties to help me decipher the hidden messages in my dreams. The issue is I can never get any work done anymore because I’m constantly getting distracted by my mushroom friends. How do I halt the spread of the crochet mushroom spores? Sincerely,  Oh Yarn, I’m Hooked Dear Oh Yarn, I’m Hooked, This sounds…

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An illustration of a girl, stars and astrological signs strewn in her hair.
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Horoscopes January 8 – 12

Peak Web January 8, 2024

By: C Icart, Humour Editor Aries March 21–April 19  IN: Rewatching Riverdale season 6. Do it for the superpowers.  OUT: Stirring your tea with a fork (seriously, why do you do that?). Taurus April 20–May 20 IN: Covering the dead…

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An outdoor sign of scotiabank theatre in front of a busy road on a dim evening.
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Red Carpet Chats: VAFF showcases outstanding Asian talent for the 27th year

Peak Web November 22, 2023

By: C Icart, Humour Editor The Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) just wrapped up its 27th edition. VAFF aims to showcase and support films from Asian Canadians and Asian diasporic communities. This year, audiences were spoiled with options, as the…

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Intersection of a cute little rat neighbourhood.
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Why I support the BC rat takeover

Peak Web November 14, 2023

By: C Icart, Humour Editor As you know, cities in beautiful British Columbia (not my words; I just read it off a license plate) are constantly at the top of all sorts of lists. For example, Vancouver and Victoria are…

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Woman wearing a gown and a crown sitting in an ornately decorated room
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Peakie is here to help you navigate injustice

Peak Web November 14, 2023

By: Cam Darting and C Icart, Humour Editor Dear Peakie,  How do I get Vancouverites to up their fashion game? It is so exhausting to have everyone stare at me when I’m walking down Commercial Drive wearing a basic dress.…

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Woman wearing an off-the-shoulder purple sweater looking at an iPad
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iPads should have calculators

Peak Web October 24, 2023

By: C Icart, Humour Editor I think it’s time we all came together and called on whoever is in charge of Apple (no, I will not look it up) to put a calculator on their wannabe PearPads. It is absolutely…

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Someone wearing a backpack and flexing from behind. The backpack reads “Backpacks are best.”
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Clapback from the backpacks

Peak Web October 20, 2023

By: C Icart, Humour Editor Alright, some serious backpack slander happened in this paper last week, and we’re not just going to lie down and take it. Who is we, you ask? Everyone sensible enough to know that backpacks are…

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Man wearing a grey hoodie surrounded by cardboard boxes. He is tightening a screw as a part of assembling a table.
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Local enby whispers righty-tighty lefty-loosey to themselves as they assemble IKEA furniture

Peak Web October 20, 2023

By: C Icart, Humour Editor After a months-long arduous battle to get a single Metro Vancouver landlord to rent their overpriced apartment to them, 24-year-old Blue Rose (which is 100% not a pseudonym I am making up for myself) finally…

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Brown Pomeranian sitting in front of a white wall next to three white balloons.
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Pomeranians, performances, and properties, oh my!

Peak Web October 17, 2023

By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer and C Icart, Humour Editor Dear Peakie,  I was at the SFU Gallery in the AQ admiring a painting of a very cute pomeranian when I saw its eyes move ever-so-slightly like they were following…

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A woman standing beside a window. The blinds are slightly raised.
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A chat with our favourite advice columnist

Peak Web October 6, 2023

By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer and C Icart, Humour Editor Dear Peakie,  The other day, my friend asked me to close the blinds, revealing a very embarrassing truth about myself: I don’t know how blinds work. And can you blame…

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