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2023 — A Year in Review
January 12, 2024By: Eden Chipperfield & Olivia Sherman TSSU Strikes for improving working conditions, June–October Learn more: The TSSU Strike Vote: A Timeline of Events TSSU members form picket line in labour action SFU’s response to the TSSU picket lines has been poor TSSU hosts BBQ in solidarity with strike BCGEU donates $200,000 to TSSU Strike Fund TSSU engages strike action at Surrey campus TSSU initiates full work stoppage Council Chats: SFSS discusses their lack of response to TSSU strike TSSU members discuss the end of the strike Beginning in June 2023, teaching assistants (TAs) at SFU engaged in a strike following…
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Maybe it’s the system: Capitalism is killing us and telling us the problem is our brains
May 10, 2022By Meera Eragoda, Features Editor One in three Canadians are likely to experience a mental illness in their lifetime. In 2020, pre-pandemic, The Tyee reported one-third of Canadians had been diagnosed with anxiety. Additionally, one-third had been prescribed antidepressants. Since…
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Dr. Cornelia Wieman on anti-Indigenous racism, COVID-19, and toxic drug poisoning
May 21, 2021Written by: Jaymee Salisi, News Writer Content warning: descriptions of anti-Indigenous racism and brief mention of suicide. On May 6, 2021 the Indigenous Reconciliation Committee of the department of psychology hosted “A Year in Public Health: The Collision of Three…
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SFU Residence and Housing serves students’ needs amid housing crisis in Vancouver
September 30, 2018Written by Amal Javed Abdullah, Staff Writer While the housing crisis in Metro Vancouver is seeing on-campus dorms fill up and pushing students to look for housing elsewhere, SFU Residence and Housing is taking steps to provide more extensive…
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The drug problem Vancouver isn’t dealing with
November 13, 2016The growing problem When you think of frequent drug users, you don't think of students, friends, family — but the reality is, assumptions about drug users in Vancouver is causing the fentanyl crisis to reach its high. In June, drug…
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