Luke Faulks
SFSS Election 2022: What to know about each open position
January 23, 2022By: Luke Faulks, Staff Writer The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) elections are here once again. Led by SFU students, the SFSS works to represent and advocate for fellow students. Some of the ways they do this are by managing student spaces, the extended health and dental plan, the U-Pass program, the university’s free legal clinic, and an emergency food bank certificate program. There are seven positions available on the SFSS Executive Committee that any SFU undergrad can run for. We reached out to some current members of the SFSS to give us the rundown on what each position entails. …
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Your SFU horoscopes: January 10–14
January 11, 2022By: Luke Faulks, Staff Writer ARIES: After horoscopes have repeatedly failed to accurately predict the ups and downs of your life, you’re starting to doubt their efficacy. At least until right now, when the stars — and I — absolutely…
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Political Corner: Why it’s important to implement ecocide
October 25, 2021by Parsa Alirezaei and Luke Faulks, SFU students In the last year alone, a BC town was burned down by raging forest fires, flooding in Germany and China killed hundreds, and the southwest United States faced its worst drought in…
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Political Corner: Canada cannot call itself a leader on international climate action
October 16, 2021by Luke Faulks, SFU student The world’s latest chance to collectively start scaling back fossil fuel production is right around the corner. The 26th Conference of the Parties, or COP26, is a meeting of the 197 signatories to the 1995…
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Canadians with disabilities deserve to vote without barriers
September 18, 2021by Luke Faulks, SFU student For Canadians with disabilities, no election is without challenge. Nevertheless, voting access strategies during COVID-19 have produced some meaningful results for citizens with visual or physical disabilities. Among the many inadvertent lessons of the COVID-19…
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It’s time for SFU to fully divest from fossil fuels
September 11, 2021By Luke Faulks, SFU student This summer, unprecedented temperatures captured the world’s attention when domestic and international news outlets warned about record-breaking heat in Lytton, just days before the town was destroyed in a wildfire. As grim as this was, the…
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