Cecile Favron
Fire, smoke, and toxins: Kinder Morgan and emergency preparedness at SFU
July 30, 2018By: Cecile Favron, Peak Associate After Angela Brooks-Wilson became a professor at Simon Fraser University, her family relocated to a neighbourhood just minutes from campus at the base of Burnaby Mountain. It was supposed to be the house that she and her husband would live in for the rest of their careers and into retirement. “It seemed really perfect until we got a notice from Kinder Morgan,” recounted Brooks-Wilson, a professor in biomedical physiology and kinesiology. “The notice said that they had applied to expand the tank farm.” That was when the family began to seriously research the safety of…
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Forum raises concern tank farm poses “catastrophic” risk
July 9, 2018Written by: Cecile Favron, Peak Associate Dozens of concerned citizens gathered to discuss links between the potential for a devastating fire on Burnaby Mountain and the Kinder Morgan tank farm expansion at Simon Fraser University on June 28. “The…
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SFU marches for missing and murdered Indigenous women
February 19, 2018By: Cecile Favron, Peak Associate SFU students and community members turned out in large numbers for a march to bring awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls on February 9. The second-annual event brought together dozens of people to march…
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SFU Surrey campus growth outpacing capacity
October 10, 2017By: Cecile Favron and Henry Tran SFU Surrey has been billed the “top priority” for the university as it marks 15 years since it first opened and the swelling number of students, faculty, and programs based at the campus has…
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Board Shorts
September 1, 2017By Cecile Favron and Henry Tran U-Pass referendum coming this fall The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) will ask undergraduate students in a referendum this fall if they want to keep their U-Pass beyond the end of the school year.…
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SFU students break down ‘invisible walls’ to climate action
February 9, 2017Although many people are aware of climate change issues, some may feel that they are unable to take action to change the situation. These often invisible barriers are what inspired a group of interdisciplinary SFU students to take on this…
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences roll out new courses for Canada’s 150th
January 23, 2017The SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) has launched a unique line-up of courses and lectures for the occasion of Canada’s 150th anniversary. The semesterly three and four credit courses and speaker series aim to prepare students to…
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