Jonah Lazar
Canucks orchestrate hierarchy overhaul
June 29, 2026By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer After finishing rock bottom in the NHL Western Conference, the Vancouver Canucks are set to reshape their managerial team. The 2025/26 campaign saw the Canucks pick up 25 wins across 82 games, finishing 19 points behind the next worst-performing team in the NHL. This is following their 2024/25 season, when the team picked up 38 wins, and finished fifth place in the Pacific Division — out of eight teams. Their 2025/26 season is regarded by many as the worst season in Canucks history: star player and captain, Quinn Hughes, was traded away, and the team…
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Soccer is the game of life: Carling Jackson’s “Uprooted to Unstoppable”
June 29, 2026By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer In light of the first days of the 2026 FIFA World Cup getting underway, and to celebrate World Football (Soccer) Day, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), unveiled a mural…
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A shared self in Simorgh: a self-portrait
June 29, 2026By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer The art exhibit Simorgh: a self-portrait is currently on display at the Audain Gallery at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. This exhibit is a collaborative work done by SFU graduate students Wyldie Bracewell, Alex…
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Book Nook: Independent West Africa: tradition, modernization, and identity in a post-colonial Africa
June 7, 2026By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer In West Africa in the 1960s, the literary scene in the newly independent nations stretching from Senegal to Nigeria was booming. Writers such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Léopold Sédar Senghor defined not just…
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Nico-meets-stereolab: a review of MEMORIALS’ All Clouds Bring Not Rain
May 18, 2026By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer Formed by Verity Susman and Matthew Simms, MEMORIALS is an art-pop duo out of Canterbury, England. Their debut record, Memorial Waterslides, won the group a modest following, and from this success they have been on…
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Angst and the avant-garde: A review of Tanya Tagaq’s Saputjiji
May 10, 2026By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer Content warning: description of residential schools. Tanya Tagaq, one of the most critically acclaimed Inuit artists, released her eighth studio album on March 6. Tagaq is known for her highly political music, which often explores…
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Robot bust-up in west mall
March 31, 2026By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer People passing through the west mall complex were left stunned as two robots began trading blows, wreaking havoc, and endangering bystanders in a dispute over a charging port. Witnesses report that this brief altercation resulted…
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SFU set to open its renovated swimming pool by fall 2077
March 30, 2026By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer After 53 long years since SFU began renovations on the pool facilities on Burnaby campus, the university has finally announced that they are just six to eight months from completing them. These renovations, which are set…
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Mayorship is a responsibility
March 23, 2026By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer Following the public outcry over the lack of transparency in the budget reshuffling — that will see about 400 Vancouverites lose their jobs in favour of lowering property taxes for the wealthy — mayor of…
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VIMFF: Extreme Ascents focuses in on perils of Everest
March 23, 2026By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of death. The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, or the VIMFF, has returned to the city for their spring festivities prior to taking the celebration on the road across Canada and the…
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