Environment
Meet the BC Green Party leadership candidates
November 8, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer The BC Greens are slated to elect new leadership this month. After losing her seat in the provincial election in October 2024, former party head Sonia Furstenau stepped down in January 2025. Now, three candidates are vying for the position. Adam Bremner-Akins, Jonathan Kerr, and Emily Lowan will appear on the ballot from September 13–23. The Peak spoke with the three contenders for more information on their outlooks and campaigns. Bremner-Akins Bremner-Akins has rooted his political movement around four key tenets — affordability, climate, mobility, and health. “The main focus of my campaign has been…
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Bill C-5 cuts red tape in service of capitalism
July 14, 2025By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer In recent years, Canada has experienced record-breaking wildfires and heat waves. Climate change has caused global temperatures to rise and ecological disasters of grave magnitude. Wildfires heavily impact communities, with large property damage, poor air…
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Fossil fuel companies shouldn’t influence education
May 14, 2025By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer A recent report from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment revealed that 39 different fossil fuel companies across Canada have significantly influenced youth’s climate change education — that is 39 too many. Enbridge,…
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Incorporating Indigenous knowledge into our education
March 24, 2025By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer The incorporation of Indigenous knowledge has been widely disregarded in western sciences. Due to racism and colonialism, Indigenous knowledge is often reduced to something that cannot fit within the frameworks of western pedagogy. Eurocentric education,…
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Stop littering campus spaces
March 20, 2025By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff writer Look, we can all joke about the fact that the SFU campus may literally be one of the most damaged and maintenance-prone places, with boarded doors and safety tape galore. But, to some degree, the…
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Short-term business goals lead to long-term damage
March 11, 2025By: Riley Williams, SFU Student Capitalist economies have long since operated with short-term thinking, contributing to numerous negative social and environmental impacts. Short-termism and long-termism are two ends of a philosophical spectrum used to describe differing perspectives on which we…
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As long as fossil fuel companies exist, we are all vulnerable to wildfires
February 21, 2025By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer We are all susceptible to the volatility of the climate. January 7 marked the beginning of one of the most devastating wildfires that would eventually grow and spread across Los Angeles. Starting in the Pacific…
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Malartic, a town suffering at the hands of the Canadian mining industry
January 23, 2025By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer The documentary, Malartic (2024), presents us with the story of the titular soul-stripped town. Located in Quebec, it has suffered socially and environmentally since its transformation into a commercialized mining project in 2011. The small…
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SFU paleoecologist discusses the past, present and future of Earth’s climate
November 16, 2023By: Olivia Sherman Dr. Rolf Mathewes is a professor of paleoecology, the study of ancient ecosystems, and is SFU’s longest serving faculty member in the department of biology. He has been a member of SFU since his undergraduate studies began…
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