Mark Lalonde

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Wildfire extinguished on Burnaby Mountain

Michelle Young September 12, 2020

On Friday, September 11 a fire burned on the northern side of Burnaby Mountain. The Burnaby Fire Department was called at 12:20 p.m. for a fire that was “500 to 600 feet across,” according to assistant fire chief Dave Younger on Burnaby Now. The fire was located around “the site of the old Shell gas station, north of University Drive.”  Around 5 p.m., Burnaby Fire stated on Twitter, that the “fire [was] extinguished quickly by a strong initial response and highly coordinated field operations.”  Younger said that a helicopter with a fire crew was called in from Chilliwack to aid…

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The Peak looks into asbestos on campus

Devana Petrovic June 16, 2020

Many of SFU’s Burnaby campus buildings were constructed using asbestos-containing materials (ACM). ACM causes health hazards when disturbed; with activities such as construction, ACM can become airborne and dangerous.  With the current construction on Burnaby campus, SFU’s Environmental Health &…

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19-year-old male with toy gun arrested at W.A.C. Bennett Library

Gurpreet Kambo October 8, 2019

Suspicions of a potential gun threat brought Burnaby RCMP to campus on October 8, though the object in question was later found to be a squirt gun and not a functioning firearm. The incident resulted in the arrest of a…

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Fire, smoke, and toxins: Kinder Morgan and emergency preparedness at SFU

Cecile Favron July 30, 2018

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 and her husband would live…

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SFU students report incidents of serial harassment and trespassing

Srijani Datta June 11, 2018

On May 30, several SFU students took to the Facebook page “‘Must Knows’ for courses at SFU”, to spread awareness about a trespasser and alleged serial sexual harasser on the Burnaby campus.      The initial post informed students about…

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