democracy
Nobel prize winner Maria Ressa joins SFU for conversation about democracy
September 29, 2022By: Pranjali J Mann, News Writer On September 13, the SFU Vancouver speaker series invited Maria Ressa, the 2021 Nobel peace prize winner, journalist, and CEO and co-founder of online news agency, Rappler. She was awarded the SFU Honorary Doctorate Degree by president Joy Johnson to acknowledge her exceptional contributions to the field of journalism, freedom of press, and combating misinformation. Ressa’s upcoming book, How to Stand up to a Dictator, will analyze misinformation across the world, including “Duterte’s drug wars, America’s Capitol Hill, and Britain’s Brexit.” Carol Off, former CBC radio host of the show As It Happens moderated…
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SFU suggests new system of decision-making for its Board of Governors
June 18, 2022By: Chloë Arneson, News Writer On May 10, SFU proposed new amendments to their policies on the Board of Governors (BoG)’ decision-making process. The general counsel and university secretary would be able to make amendments to university procedures without Board…
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SFSS 2020 AGM: Moving towards equity and democracy
October 19, 2020By Balqees Jama, SFSS Board of Directors (At-Large Rep) Recent SFU Student Activism SFU has witnessed a wave of student activism over the last couple of years that was inspired in 2018 by an interconnected combination of movements on campus.…
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SFU’s COVID-19 and the Future of Democracy highlights activism arising from the pandemic
October 2, 2020By Emma Jean, Staff Writer If anything good has emerged from this pandemic, it’s that the cracks in our systems have become more apparent than ever. It might feel easy to make like a turtle and hide until it all…
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SFU survey suggests Vancouverites’ commitment to democracy is dropping
October 30, 2018Written by Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate While Metro Vancouverites value democracy, many of them have become disengaged with it, according to a recent public opinion survey. This survey was done in August 2018 by SFU's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue,…
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Adulthood 101: Voting in the 2018 Burnaby municipal election
October 17, 2018By: Michelle Gomez, Staff writer The Burnaby election campaigns have been underway for a few weeks now, and this weekend, we’ll be voting for one mayor, eight city councillors, and seven school trustees. The mayoral race mixes old and new…
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Canada should not change the voting age
February 29, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n a recent Peak article titled “5 reasons why we should lower Canada’s voting age,” while Ms. Tamara Connor was correct to state that there isn’t a magic age of preparedness for voting, this isn’t a proper reason to lower…
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Tim’s Bit — BC Liberals, stop asking and starting doing!
January 19, 2016Tim’s Bit is a new web-exclusive column featuring Tim Mottishaw’s comedic tirades on some of our humanity’s dumbest problems, with regards to culture, society and politics. Read more Tim's Bit here! [dropcap]R[/dropcap]ecently I was asked my opinion on whether the…
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Facebook wants to rob us of our democratic news
May 11, 2015[caption id="attachment_2485" align="aligncenter" width="940"] Photo Credit: Phoebe Lim[/caption] Realizing how dependent the masses have become on Facebook for daily news updates, the social media giant now aims to partner with news companies to host news material. Personally, I can’t help…
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Students should get out and vote in this year’s federal election
January 12, 2015We’ve now entered the year 2015: federal election year. On October 19, Canadians will once again have the chance to choose the people who will govern our nation for the next four years. That date is now about 40 weeks…
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