Mason Mattu

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Comic: It’s coming on Christmas . . .

Peak Web December 20, 2025

Photography/creative geniusesness: Jack Baron (Contributor), Katie Walkley (Peak Associate), Mason Mattu (Humour Editor)  

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A man sitting in the back seat of a car, writing song lyrics in a notepad.
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It’s time to ditch the norms of songwriting

Peak Web December 20, 2025

By: Mason Mattu, Section Editor This summer, I wrote a bunch of songs from the back of a car on a super-long family road trip. Through speed bumps and all, I found a certain solitude in writing — a comfort…

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The dialectic nature of brunch as a form of resistance in a post-constructivist, Maoist, anti-rhizomatic context, as prescribed by bottomless Buddy Burgers

Peak Web December 19, 2025

By: Mason Mattu, Critical Brunch Scholar  Acknowledgements: Thank you to A&W Canada for sponsoring this delicious research paper. You can buy a Buddy Burger for only a penny with the coupon code: TheA&WGuySentMe. To brunch is to rebel. To eat…

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A drawing of a person wearing a yellow sleeveless shirt. On the arm, they are wearing a continuous glucose monitor, a patch on the bicep. On their waistband, a small insulin pump is attached and tubing can be seen going under the shirt.
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Life with type 1 diabetes

Peak Web December 18, 2025

By: Mason Mattu, Section Editor  In September 2019, I lay in a hospital bed at BC Children’s Hospital. A nurse hovered over me, poking my finger with a device I had never seen before. I winced. What was going on?…

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In Boots, portrayals of being gay are nuanced — the way it should be

Peak Web December 18, 2025

By: Mason Mattu, Section Editor  Boots, Netflix’s recently-released gay military dramedy, stars a very talented Miles Heizer (Parenthood) as Cameron Cope, a closeted gay teenager who enlists in the Marines in 1990s South Carolina. The story is based on Greg…

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A crowd of people in jackets surrounds the entrance to a building, with the building’s sign being displayed near the entrance (“Strand Hall”). The person closest to the camera is waving a large red flag that says “UNITE HERE Local 40,” while others hold a few signs here and there as well. Another sign says, “ONE JOB SHOULD BE ENOUGH.”
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SFU’s contracted food service workers stage demonstration

Peak Web December 18, 2025

By: Mason Mattu, Section Editor  On November 5, SFU’s contracted food service employees took their lunch break collectively to stage a demonstration, demanding a living wage and improved working conditions. Employees from Tim Hortons, Starbucks, Mackenzie Café, the Dining Commons,…

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Dear Peakie calls on Santa’s elves to unite against corporate greed

Peak Web December 18, 2025

By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer and Mason Mattu, Humour Editor Dear Peakie,  Where have you been?? We haven’t seen you since, like, February? It seems as though you got replaced by a Beedie Bro advice column? How can I be…

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Incorporating the lessons of Bandi Chhor Divas in today’s world

Peak Web November 11, 2025

By: Mason Narinder Singh Mattu, Section Editor Bandi Chhor Divas is a celebration born from the events that took place after Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji, the sixth guru of Sikhi (anglicized as Sikhism), was released from wrongful imprisonment by the…

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A man wearing all black grins at the camera. He is sitting next to a pile of books at the library.
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SCARY STORIES: Vampire spotted at the Bennett Library

Peak Web November 11, 2025

By: Gurnoor Jhajj, SFU Student and Mason Mattu, Humour Editor It all went down before a history midterm, on the sixth floor of the library. I was going over my notes, double-fisting two coffees and an energy drink, when I…

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A raccoon is bending down toward the concrete ground to eat some sort of human food in a white and orange wrapper. The animal is pictured near an outside stairwell and elevator at SFU Burnaby.
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Non-profit proposes wildlife feeding bylaw for the City of Burnaby

Peak Web November 11, 2025

By: Niveja Assalaarachchi, News Writer A new proposal has emerged calling on the City of Burnaby to pass a bylaw deterring the public from feeding wildlife. The movement is spearheaded by The Fur-Bearers, a Canadian charity that aims to advance…

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