Gabrielle McLaren
The Burning House Challenge
July 6, 2018By: Brendon Adam, Lyz Boyd, Kitty Cheung, Victoria Lopatka, Gabrielle McLaren, Courtney Miller, Harleen Sahota, and Pamela Subia; compiled by Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor If you were out for a gander on tumblr a while ago, you might have run into the Burning House Challenge. According to the website's description of the project: "If your house was burning, what would you take with you? It's a conflict between what's practical, valuable and sentimental. What you would take reflects your interests, background and priorities." A while back, I sent an email out to my contributor list, asking them what they would save.…
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Unsanctioned posters with SFSS logo taken down, but fate of Redeemed Christian Fellowship still unclear
July 3, 2018Written by: Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor Last week, The Peak reported that the Redeemed Christian Fellowship (RCF), a club recognised by the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS), had used the society’s logo without permission to advertise an event that…
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What’d I Miss?: The Kinder Morgan Pipeline
June 28, 2018By: Simran Randhawa and Gabrielle McLaren 1951 On December 13, after three days of deliberation, the Board of Transportation Commissioners approved the application for a pipeline to be built, connecting Burnaby to Edmonton. It was established because of the discovery…
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An east to west and north to south look at Canadian books
June 28, 2018By: Gabrielle McLaren In school, we had to read Canadian books all the time for English and French class. I’m not going to lie: most of them were bad and made me want to scratch my eyes out. No more…
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Historical pretexts for ridiculous political sanctions
June 27, 2018By: Alex Bloom, Gabrielle McLaren, Aaron Richardson UK bans Danish imports in response to late 8th century Viking raids The island nation passed sanctions on the “Viking homeland,” as secretary of state for foreign affairs Boris Johnson put it, “until…
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Canada Day Bingo
June 26, 2018By: Gabrielle McLaren, Winona Young, and Aaron Richardson
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A completely true and historically accurate history of Canada
June 25, 2018By: Gabrielle McLaren 1351: Man living his best life taps tree and decides to boil sap on a dare. Discovers how to make maple syrup, changing the pancake game forever. 1400: All is well. The moose just had a…
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Useless Canadian trivia to bring up on Canada Day
June 25, 2018By: Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor Do I remember what I had for supper last night? Not at all. Do I have a lot of unnecessary trivia about Canada in my head, just in time for Canada Day? You bet. My…
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Queer representation: what makes it and what breaks it
June 24, 2018Written by Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor At long last, we have responded to the call for media which represents reality, and we’re seeing more on our screens and pages than white folks and vampires. But that doesn’t mean we’re done,…
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Doug Ford’s election teaches us that provincial politics matter too
June 22, 2018Written by: Gabrielle McLaren *This article has been changed from the print version to more accurately reflect the intent of the writer. Every summer, a Canadian province bursts into flames. Last year, it was literal forest fires in B.C. This…
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