Heidi Kwok
There aren’t enough healthy food options at SFU
November 11, 2025First, the 24/7 UpMeals SmartVending machine at West Mall Centre disappeared without a warning. Then, the Subway at Mackenzie Cafe was quietly torn down. Jugo Juice was next on the chopping board, having been boarded up over the summer for “routine maintenance.” For some reason, I believed their deception. It’s just a temporary inconvenience, right? But when the fall term commenced, and I rushed there after a long day of classes for my weekly indulgence — an overpriced peanut butter and chocolate smoothie — I was met with a sight that felt like a slap to the face. There, perched…
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Vessels traces Latin America’s shared colonial legacy
November 11, 2025On October 6, the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre presented Vessels: A Visual Journey Through Latin America’s Open Veins as part of Latin Expressions 2025, a festival celebrating Latin American art and culture during Canada’s Latin American Heritage Month. Vessels…
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A Peak through the archives: Judging past humour pieces
November 11, 2025Did you know that The Peak wasn’t always funny? Gasp, you say. Oh, but it’s true. It wasn’t until the first humour section, “Nifty Pages,” graced us with its presence on January 12, 1998, that we truly became a sophisticated…
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Hobbies are integral to combating toxic productivity
November 11, 2025Capitalist societies program us to believe it’s unproductive to set time aside for leisure activities. I’ve countlessly fallen victim to this mindset myself. If I choose to turn my attention to creating art or reading the latest sci-fi novel from…
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Asbestos speak out against heartless renoviction from the library
November 11, 2025Over the summer, SFU’s asbestos community was served a notice to vacate the fifth floor of the W.A.C. Bennett Library on the Burnaby campus. This eviction coincides with the reopening of the floor on August 25, following a nearly three-year…
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Activists discuss the intersection between Palestinian liberation and disability justice
November 10, 2025Content warning: mentions of genocide, forced sterilization, and embodied and psychological trauma. On September 12 at the Harbour Centre, the Disability Justice Network of BC and the SFU Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS) hosted a panel of five speakers…
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Historic floods devastate communities in Punjab
November 9, 2025Content warning: mention of suicides. The Indian state of Punjab has been facing severe flooding, the worst since 1988, due to intense monsoon rainfall. As of late June, an estimated 1,900 villages and 400,000 acres of farmland are submerged, and…
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Documenting my transition away from Google’s search engine
November 9, 2025Discussing all the reasons to boycott Google would take an entire article, but the tech giant’s involvement in violent state surveillance projects is reason enough. Project Nimbus is their artificial intelligence project that provides the Israeli government with surveillance data…
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SFU conceals its environmental harms through greenwashing
November 8, 2025Every June, SFU’s marketing team paces restlessly in front of their computers in anticipation of the green light. Then, right on cue, they begin preaching about the university’s position as a world leader in sustainability and climate action. There’s no…
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Welcome back to SFU (you’ll never leave) bingo
November 8, 2025The rules are simple. Every time you see something on this chart during the first week of classes, mark it off! If you get a blackout, you win! And if you win, you get a free copy of next week’s…
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