By: Luke Faulks, Staff Writer Fresh from winning Best First Time Director for Short at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Kaitlyn Lee’s student film, Not My Age, is headed to the Vancouver Short Film Festival (VSFF). Not My Age follows a granddaughter and grandmother who, after the latter suffers an injury, bond over an evening of spray painting. Kaitlyn helms as director, but the short film also features a collaboration between SFU students Cathy Huynh (producer) and Peter Lee (director of photography and Kaitlyn’s brother). Kaitlyn’s inspiration for the film came from her fascination with the coming-of-age genre and her…
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By: 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…
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By: 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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by 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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by 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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by 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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By 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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