Kelly Chia

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Get to know your 2020 SFSS candidates – VP Student Life

Features March 15, 2020

Compiled by: Kelly Chia, Features Editor It’s election season for the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS)! The Peak has reached out to candidates to ask three questions based on their positions and compiled the results to help you navigate this election period. Voting this year will take place March 17–19 through SFU Mail. The SFSS is SFU’s student-led society, representing the entire undergraduate population of the university. Headed by 16 Board of Directors, SFSS members are elected every spring by the student body to hold a one-year term. During this term they manage day-to-day society work, manage large-scale finances, execute university-wide…

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Peak Speaks Podcast – Fur Real Episode

Multimedia February 25, 2020

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Luminesque stuns in heels, glamour, and a healthy dose of femme empowerment

Arts February 12, 2020

by Kelly Chia, Features Editor Intrigue and excitement. Those were the two emotions that dominated my mind as I first entered the doors of Celebrities Nightclub to see Absinthe, Luminesque’s heels performance show. Heels performances are characterized by the fact…

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Peak Speaks Podcast – Hot Takes, Unpopular Opinions, and Lowkey Confessions

Multimedia February 8, 2020

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Students talk Lunar New Year

Features February 4, 2020

By: Madeleine Chan, Kelly Chia, Vivien Ying Qi Li I have come to realize that the Lunar New Year represents a renewal of sorts for me.  Every Lunar New Year, my paternal grandparents treat my family and I to a meal…

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CONFESSIONALS: I’m an abandoned microwave

Humour February 4, 2020

Written by Kelly Chia, Features Editor Life at SFU isn’t easy. It’s not the humdrum grey and red that gets you, but the illusion that you might be different. That you’re the cool one. Then year after year, you lose.…

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Mount Burnabus: Rise of the SFU Olympians

Humour February 3, 2020

Written by Juztin Bello, Madeleine Chan, Kelly Chia, Gabrielle McLaren, and Zach Siddiqui If you read the Percy Jackson books, then you know that the twelve Olympian gods of Greek lore travel wherever the flame of civilization goes. The flame…

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Resources for Australian bushfire relief

Features January 21, 2020

By: Kelly Chia, Features Editor As of the time this article is being written, 10.7 million hectares have been burnt in Australia. The Guardian reports that 1,700 homes have been lost, and 23 people have died due to the bushfires…

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The Peak Artist Rewind 2019: The best artists of the year 

Arts January 4, 2020

By Kitty Cheung, Ben McGuinness, Madeleine Chan, Zach Siddiqui, Juztin Bello, Kim Regala, Nicole Magas, Kelly Chia, Lubaba Mahmud cehryl by Kitty Cheung [caption id="attachment_112556" align="alignnone" width="300"] Screenshot via Instagram[/caption] cehryl is a Hong Kong-born artist whose work is full…

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What are SFU students looking forward to in 2020?

Features January 3, 2020

By: Kelly Chia, Meera Eragoda, Victoria Lopatka, Nicky Magas, Lubaba Mahmud, Kim Regala I want to live my twenties without guilt about taking time to rest. Hi there, 2020.  2019 was a year of many firsts for me: it was the…

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