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Council receives presentation from No Cops on Campus
Peak Web March 28, 2022By: Karissa Ketter, News Writer Content warning: this article mentions anti-Black and anti-Indigenous topics. Council receives a presentation from No Cops on Campus At the March 16 meeting, Graduate Student Society director of access and equity, Hafsa Sadiq, and Chantelle Spicer, director of engagement at the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group delivered a presentation on the No Cops on Campus campaign. “As we know all too well, the RCMP has a history of white supremacist and colonial violence in Canada.” said Sadiq. “From SFU’s founding in 1965, the administration has relied on RCMP to suppress student protest, police Black and…
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: There are other solutions to policing problems other than abolishing the police
Opinions July 7, 2020Dear Editor-in-Chief, Recently, The Peak published an editorial covering the debate surrounding policing in Canada, and whether the institution needs to be abolished or reformed. There’s no question that we have a problem with policing — namely the lack of…
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