Jaymee Salisi
Teaching Support Staff Union continues to advocate for research assistants
March 22, 2021Written by: Jaymee Salisi, News Writer In 2019, SFU signed a Memorandum of Agreement of Voluntary Recognition with the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) to grant the university’s research assistants (RAs) equal rights and benefits as other SFU employees. Since then, SFU has violated every term of their agreement, according to the TSSU. The agreement requires SFU to recognize RAs as employees and provides the TSSU with a monthly list of working RAs three days before each monthly meeting. This would allow RAs to receive their benefits since lists give the TSSU an opportunity to survey their needs prior to…
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Board Shorts — February 26, 2021
March 19, 2021Written by: Jaymee Salisi, News Writer Student Union Building (SUB) reopening plan SFU recently announced plans to reopen in Fall 2021. In preparation, Vice President (VP) of Finance Corbett Gildersleve brought forward a motion for the Simon Fraser Student Society…
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Liberals vote against pharmacare
March 16, 2021Written by: Jaymee Salisi, News Writer On February 24, 2021 Parliament voted against Bill C-213, the “Canada Pharmacare Act,” which aimed to provide Canadians with universal access to prescription drugs. The proposed legislation was blocked by the Liberals, Conservatives, and…
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Data breach exposes SFU users’ personally identifiable information
March 8, 2021Written by: Jaymee Salisi, News Writer On February 3, 2021, there was an eight-minute data breach from an SFU server. IT services discovered the attack two days later and blocked external access to the server immediately. Faculty, staff, and students…
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SFU associate professor Jiguo Cao renewed as Tier 2 Canada Research Chair
March 3, 2021by Jaymee Salisi, News Writer Initially nominated in 2015 for Tier 1 of the program, Jiguo Cao was renewed as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in data science. With this title, Cao takes on the responsibility of promoting and leading…
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SFU and Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre collaborate to decarbonize BC’s industrial sectors through cleantech
March 1, 2021by Jaymee Salisi, News Writer Foresight Cleantech Accelerator and SFU will work together to support the development of BC cleantech. This project will be funded by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions to focus on decarbonizing industrial services. Cleantech refers to…
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Proud Boys named terrorist group in Canada
February 25, 2021Written by: Jaymee Salisi, News Writer On February 3, 2021, the Canadian government announced 13 groups as terrorist entities. Among these extremist groups were the Proud Boys. Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety, stated in the government release that the…
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Four films and TV series that celebrate Black stories
February 21, 2021By: Jaymee Salisi, News Writer Black stories are beautiful, in both their excellence and normalcy. Yet, Hollywood has a history of wedging white saviours into Black stories. Movies such as The Help and The Blind Side, specifically, have been criticized…
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Board Shorts — January 29, 2021
February 16, 2021by Jaymee Salisi, News Writer Social justice campaign support fund As student-led social justice campaigns have increased in recent years at SFU, the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) discussed plans to set aside money each year to fund student initiatives.…
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AccessBC advocates for no-cost prescription contraception
February 15, 2021by Jaymee Salisi, News Writer AccessBC is pushing for various types of contraception (such as the contraceptive patch, implant, and oral pill) to be available to all BC residents at no cost. “Access to contraception in BC is recognized as a…
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