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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 BC Liberals should regulate or ban businesses like Uber and Airbnb. My first response is always, “Too late, these businesses are already here.” The sharing culture is picking up steam, with businesses like Uber, Car2go, Airbnb, and Kickstarter changing the way we consume items like cars, or services like taxis or hotels. The ‘share economy’ is increasingly becoming a way…
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The five stages of grief Conservatives went through after hearing the election results
October 26, 2015‘Twas October 19, and I was watching what every other campus Conservative was: the Antiques Roadshow marathon. Sure, the election was happening, but I wasn’t worried about the result, as I was confident Harper would get another majority. What’s not…
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BC can do better than Liquefied Natural Gas
July 26, 2015Premier Christy Clark has summoned MLAs for a special summer session to pass through Bill-30, which will in effect approve a deal with Pacific Northwest LNG, a consortium led by Malaysian-owned firm Petronas, to extract and process Liquefied Natural Gas…
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HUMOUR: Ash’s Squirtle called out of retirement to help battle BC wildfires
July 21, 2015With over 200 wildfires (as of print time) currently blazing across British Columbia, the provincial government has called Ash Ketchum’s Squirtle out of retirement to help combat the growing numbers. A once prominent member of the Pokémon trainer’s roster, Ash’s…
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Put funding back into our public schools
July 13, 2015This past spring, the BC Liberal government announced that there will be more cuts coming to a public school near you. As the summer heat continues to rise and productivity levels continue to drop, I cannot stress enough the importance…
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Why Canada should update its archaic drug laws
June 29, 2015The Supreme Court of Canada recently invalidated sections 4 and 5 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act in a unanimous decision, effectively legalizing non-conventional forms of marijuana for medicinal use. This means that those who are licensed to use…
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Peak Speak: Stephen Harper designs new “dad jeans”
June 5, 2015This week The Peak asked SFU students how they would react to Stephen Harper starting a line of "dad jeans"? Created by Paige Smith Special thanks to Jacey Gibb
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Guns kill people but gun control saves lives
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2055" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Earlier this week, the Canadian Supreme Court decided in a 5–4 decision that the Federal government is entitled to destroy all of Quebec’s data from the long-gun registry (LGR), which was…
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Scrap the tuition fees; education is a right
March 9, 2015[caption id="attachment_935" align="alignnone" width="940"] Image Credit: Andrew Moss (Flickr)[/caption] I’ll let you know right off the bat that I’m currently $25,000 in student debt. With another two years of post-secondary education on the horizon, I estimate I’ll be at over…
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BC’s ‘balanced budget’ is costing ordinary citizens
March 1, 2015[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo credit: Images Money[/caption] While BC residents deal with exorbitantly high living costs and public services that lag behind the rest of Canada, the new provincial budget recently tabled by the Liberal majority shows a clear…
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