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Spirit of British Columbia flips out for Instagram flop outs
January 20, 2023SAANICH — Shortly after departing Swartz Bay at 7:00 p.m., the Spirit of British Columbia put out a distress call signalling that it was sinking. Rescue boats were on the scene shortly after, and no fatalities were reported. Questions were raised however, about how this had happened. Interviews following multiple reports revealed that the suspicious scuffle on the sun deck turned out to be passengers running from port to starboard seeking the perfect sunset picture “for the ‘gram’.” To the North was the Georgia Strait and Gulf Islands, and to the South was the alluring and towering Mount Baker. Passengers…
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Fakes brings Hollywood North home
December 2, 2022Content warning: Mentions of gun violence As a city with a leading film production industry, Vancouver often stands-in for famous real and fictional locales south of the border, from San Francisco in Planet of the Apes to New York in…
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SFYou: Pourya Sardari
December 2, 2022Content warning: mentions of violence against women. Pourya Sardari is an international student from Mashhad in Iran’s Razavi Khorasan province. Sardari is currently pursuing a Master’s in Biological Sciences and recently made a class presentation about his research on the…
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Hidden Gems: Three spots to treat your palate
November 11, 2022Tap Restaurant 15350 34 Ave #101, South Surrey / Mains $26–$50 Tap is a fine dining spot perfect for celebrating milestones. If you watch MasterChef or spend a lot of time perfecting your culinary skills, you’ll want to experience their…
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Student conducts study on birds colliding into SFU windows
November 3, 2022Vanessa Hum, a master’s of biological sciences student at SFU, has been conducting a study on bird collisions with windows at the Burnaby campus. Through citizen science, which she explained as data collected by the public, she has gained a…
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Associate criminology professor wins 2022 Sterling Prize
November 2, 2022Associate professor of criminology, Alexandra Lysova, recently received the Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy, honouring years of research on men who are victims of domestic violence. The prize is committed to recognizing work that provokes and contributes to the…
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The United Nations has some trouble putting out fires on their Security Council
October 30, 2022NEW YORK —The Dag Hammarskjöld Library at the United Nations burnt to the ground after it caught fire. Extraordinarily, no one was hurt, but the loss was immense. While observers thought some kind of jurisdictional issue had prevented firefighters from…
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Whistler invaded by emus
October 26, 2022WHISTLER — A Kiwi tourist was in for a nasty surprise when she woke up at one of Whistler’s renowned lodges and found an emu staring right at her. After screaming for 15 minutes, the tourist activated an alarm which…
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Local student disappointed that icebreakers don’t involve actual ice (and other literal disappointments)
October 7, 2022VANCOUVER — A student showed up to an icebreaker at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts with an ice pick and giant ice cube. Onlookers described initially being in shock until they found out the student in question was a…
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Bajo la corteza: the unifying fragility of the environment and humankind
September 20, 2022Part of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Martín Heredia Troncoso’s Bajo la corteza (Under Bark) begins with a raging forest fire in the Argentine province of Córdoba. We meet César, a humble man out of work, moving rapidly to…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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For promotional inquiries: [email protected]