Hailey Miller

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Horoscopes December 2–8

Hailey Miller December 2, 2024

Aries March 21–April 19 Your laptop is full of unfinished assignments, and that’s OK! What’s more merry and bright than cramming in last-minute papers and exams worth your entire grade? “Catchup Queen” is your middle name. Get to work, you study elf! Taurus April 20–May 20 You really thought it was your last semester, didn’t you? Wrong! Your holiday wish won’t come true this year. Those pesky little writing, quantitative, and breadth credits are really putting a damper on your scholarly endeavours. Bah humbug! Happy holidays from the Grade Grinch yourself! Maybe next year, you’ll get a parchment in a…

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The importance of vegetarianism and veganism

Hailey Miller November 27, 2024

Content warning: mentions of animal slaughter. I’ve been a vegetarian since I was seven years old. I love animals too much to harm them, and that was my main reason for becoming a vegetarian in the first place. My parents…

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A woman in a Canadian Olympic uniform waves to a crowd behind the camera as she holds a Canadian flag on her shoulders.
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Aurélie Rivard and her remarkable Canadian legacy

Hailey Miller November 21, 2024

Aurélie Rivard has won the most medals of any woman in Canadian Paralympic swimming with a total of 14 Paralympic medals — six gold, four silver, and four bronze. She has won another 19 world championship medals and holds a…

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The resonant harmonies of Ruby Singh’s Vox.Infold

Hailey Miller November 19, 2024

Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist Ruby Singh released his debut album, Vox.Infold, in January 2022. The sequel album, Vox.Infold II, is set to grace the ears of the public on November 29. In preparation for this, I had the pleasure of seasoning…

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Lower Mainland struck by record-breaking atmospheric river

Hailey Miller November 10, 2024

Content warning: descriptions of death by natural disaster. On the weekend of October 19–20, a “major atmospheric river” made its way across the Lower Mainland, breaking a number of rainfall records. Some areas “saw a month’s worth of rain in…

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I checked my phone to get my MFA code, and now I’m spiralling down the social media rabbit hole

Hailey Miller November 10, 2024

I have a love-hate relationship with multi-factor authentication (MFA). OK, mostly hate. It’s a pain in the ass, but at the same time, it fends off the hackers . . . or so they tell us. Psst, maybe it’s just…

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Burnaby Mountain isn’t the only SFU campus

Hailey Miller November 6, 2024

Although Burnaby Mountain is SFU’s main campus, it isn’t the only one. Most people are aware of the Surrey Central City campus and Harbour Centre in Vancouver, but the lesser-known satellite campuses are often forgotten about. They squeeze out a…

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Halloween needs to be more sustainable

Hailey Miller October 30, 2024

Halloween is just around the corner, and the unsustainability that comes with it is what should really give you a scare. Halloween waste amounts to a staggering 2,000 tonnes of plastic waste, equivalent to 83 million plastic bottles. To add…

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A player with a red uniform on and a maple leaf in the top corner kicks the ball around multiple players in white.
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SFU women’s soccer is off to a red-hot start

Hailey Miller October 30, 2024

The SFU women’s soccer team is off to a fleeting start this season with a .731 winning percentage as of October 25. The Peak interviewed the two senior captains on the team, Katie Richardson and Kate Cartier, to discuss their…

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Mastering the Basics: Broomball

Hailey Miller October 24, 2024

Are you a hockey or curling fan who’s looking for a new sport? Maybe you’re a fan of neither but open to hurling a ball down the ice with a paddle-shaped broomstick to give yourself a workout and partake in…

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