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SFSS lobbies provincial government for lower student loans, open access resources, and sexual violence policies
November 28, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor In a recent lobbying trip to Victoria, student directors from the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) met with provincial government representatives to advocate for restructuring student loans, open-education resources, and a review of the sexual violence and misconduct policies of B.C. post-secondary institutions. The SFSS partnered with UBC Alma Mater Society (AMS) and the BC Federation of Students (BCFS) during this trip, creating a lobbying group that represented over 200,000 B.C. students. Like in past years, the SFSS has planned two provincial lobbying trips for this academic year. During this first trip, timed…
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Board Shorts
November 27, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor Board approves motion to extend subleases with CJSF and SFPIRG on a month-to-month basis The original expiry date on the subleases allocating the Simon Fraser Campus Radio Society (CJSF) and the Simon Fraser…
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Fire, smoke, and toxins: Kinder Morgan and emergency preparedness at SFU
July 30, 2018By: Cecile Favron, Peak Associate After Angela Brooks-Wilson became a professor at Simon Fraser University, her family relocated to a neighbourhood just minutes from campus at the base of Burnaby Mountain. It was supposed to be the house that she…
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Forum raises concern tank farm poses “catastrophic” risk
July 9, 2018Written by: Cecile Favron, Peak Associate Dozens of concerned citizens gathered to discuss links between the potential for a devastating fire on Burnaby Mountain and the Kinder Morgan tank farm expansion at Simon Fraser University on June 28. “The…
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What’d I Miss?: The Kinder Morgan Pipeline
June 28, 2018By: Simran Randhawa and Gabrielle McLaren 1951 On December 13, after three days of deliberation, the Board of Transportation Commissioners approved the application for a pipeline to be built, connecting Burnaby to Edmonton. It was established because of the discovery…
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ChangeSFU protests against government bailout of Kinder Morgan pipeline
May 25, 2018By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor On May 8, SFU’s student-run environmental activism group, ChangeSFU, organized a casserole rally at the constituency office of Terry Beech — the MP for Burnaby North-Seymour — to demonstrate opposition to a Kinder…
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BC moves to block Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, provinces square off
February 12, 2018British Columbia moved to block the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion through the announcement of its new plan to limit any diluted bitumen, or dilbit, from entering the province via the pipeline. The announcement prompted a domestic trade war…
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SFU research on Mars surface water, the effect of bitumen on BC’s salmon population
January 25, 2018What happened to Mars’ surface water? An international study co-led by Brendan Dyck, SFU researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences, suggests that a fair amount of surface water on Mars was absorbed into the crust of the planet. This…
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Year in Review
January 5, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor From reconciliation, to addressing sexual misconduct, to the political associations of our team name, 2017 was the year SFU opened up dialogue about issues that resonated in our community. We present a rundown…
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Local residents stage anti-Kinder Morgan protest at public safety office
October 24, 2017By: Aliocha Perriard-Abdoh Local residents rallied against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain tank farm yesterday at the base of Burnaby Mountain in front of a local branch of the federal public safety office. The protest called a…
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