Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik
Environmental concerns lead Burnaby to reject off-campus student residence
December 20, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Securing housing can be a serious struggle for university students, and those at SFU are no exception. SFU recently broke ground on a new residence building, with the additional 445 beds increasing the university’s housing capacity to around 8% of the student population. The project represents phase three of the university’s Residence and Housing Master Plan, with more housing construction in phases four and five to follow. Still, SFU continues to seek opportunities to expand student residence. Recently, a proposal from Forum Asset Management, an “investor, developer, and asset manager,” represented such a possibility. The…
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First Nations Health Authority reports on phase one of “Indigenizing Harm Reduction” study
December 20, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Content warning: mentions of substance use and death. Across Canada, the toxic drug crisis persists as a social issue faced by thousands of citizens each year. In BC alone, over 14,500 people have died from…
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Freshet News flows through community
December 18, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer When snow begins to melt and gives way to spring, rivers in BC rise and rush in response. This high water phenomenon is known as a freshet. Now, in the Tri-Cities and surrounding areas, a new…
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Vancouver to require exempt staff in-office five days a week
December 18, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer For Vancouver city employees, pyjama bottoms at work may no longer be feasible. CTV News reported that on October 21, workers received an email from city manager Donny van Dyk informing them that “effective January…
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Monday Music: Gloom and grey
December 18, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer “Past Lives” by Jay Som & Hayley Williams “I’m stuck in the mud, I’m spiraling up [ . . . ] it’s falling apart.” Som and Williams come together on “Past Lives” to deliver a…
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Student organizations hold strike for Palestine at SFU
December 18, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer On October 23, chants echoed across convocation mall as SFU community members gathered for a campus strike in solidarity with Palestine. Organized by the climate justice organization SFU350 and the anti-Zionist group Independent Jewish Voices…
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Dining workers speak to poor working conditions
November 11, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer On October 7, a Reddit user posted to r/simonfraser concerning the possibility of a dining worker strike across SFU’s Burnaby campus. The message, which is from Contract Worker Justice (CWJ) @SFU, asserted that SFU “hasn’t…
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BEEDIE BRO: Ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and great investment opportunities
November 11, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, Entrepreneur Yes, I still go trick-or-treating, just not for the candy. What a lot of people without the Beedie mindset don’t realize is that Halloween is the perfect networking opportunity. See, while everyone else is going door…
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SFU considers leaving the NCAA
November 11, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Today, SFU stands as the only non-American institution in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), while most Canadian schools compete in U Sports, the country’s national sports governing body. Soon, however, that could change. On…
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Writing stories since 1965 — The Peak turns 60!
November 11, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer The year 1965 saw the development of the modern Canadian flag, the first spacewalk, Malcolm X’s assassination, and other notable events. It was amid the backdrop of these events that The Peak, SFU’s independent student…
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