Kelly Chia
Celebrities aren’t exempt from criticism
February 27, 2024Content warning: mentions of non-consensual pornography. 21-year-old Jack Sweeney has tracked private jet flights of celebrities since 2022. Sweeney’s list found that from January–July 2022, Taylor Swift’s flights produced an estimated “total flight emissions of 8,293.54 tonnes of carbon.” According to a study done by Yard, this is a whopping 1,184.8 times more than an average person’s emissions. Swifties, I can see you reading this and immediately thinking, “Oh, well, she quite literally boosted the US economy by $4.6 billion with the Eras tour. Of course she flies a lot!” I need you to know I am not, in fact,…
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WGOG: Stop nerfing my emotionally complicated women!
February 19, 2024From my first days in the gaming community, I’ve noticed that characters who are women will often get more flack for being rude to the player, and I think that’s really unfair. When I first played Persona 3 Portable, (I’m…
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Opinions in Dialogue: The commodification of Lunar New Year
February 14, 2024Content warning: mentions of racism. With all the Christmas hype leaving our local malls, storefronts are now being swamped with limited-edition Lunar New Year promotions. Anything from red-and-gold advertisement schemes to special collections based on the upcoming Year of the…
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What Grinds Our Gears: YouTube ads make me scream
February 9, 2024YouTube is really pissing me off lately. When I’m trying to relax, I like watching my favourite creators on my TV, but I’ve recently been getting multiple, unskippable ad breaks that are 45-seconds long. I’m talking about three or four…
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What Grinds our Gears: A hate letter to my Wi-Fi stick
November 30, 2023Have you ever wanted to play a game, only to realize it would take you three whole days to download said game? Hopefully not. My Wi-Fi stick does, though. And I don’t want to hear that I can just try…
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Broadway Across Canada’s Hadestown masterfully delivers its cyclical love story
November 28, 2023You might know the Greek myth of Orpheus: the talented musician who journeys to rescue his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld. Hades promises Orpheus he can have Eurydice only if he walks out of the underworld without looking back. Famously,…
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Horoscopes October 29–November 4
November 25, 2023Aries Did anyone tell you that it’s shark week? Well, not in the way you think it might be. Prepare yourself for the onslaught of seven evil sharks during your midterm week. Defeating each subsequent shark in a battle of…
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How SFU presented that tentative agreement
November 15, 2023Burnaby, BC — to many, this foggy evening at SFU would be a regular night. But to the SFU bargaining team, who told us in secret that SFU actually stood for, “Sufficient, Fair, Understanding,” prior to a certain bargaining meeting,…
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We shouldn’t punish calls for ceasefires
November 7, 2023Content warning: mentions of bombings, genocide, racism. On October 24, member of provincial parliament (MPP) Sarah Jama was censured. This means Jama will not be recognized by the Speaker of the House. She made a statement on October 7 calling…
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Me, and my incredible, cool, not bad, very good article titles have something to say
September 28, 2023By: Totally-Not-the-Editor-in-Chief On a bright Sunday afternoon, The Peak received this very strongly worded letter. In the words of George Orwell, or whatever: “Don’t be a hater.” We are sharing this letter as an example of what not to do,…
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