Mason Mattu
Love, intimacy, and more in The Peak’s February TV picks
February 13, 2025By: Karly Burns, Fact Checker; Mason Mattu, News Writer; Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture Editor; Petra Chase, Editor-in-Chief A love letter to XO, Kitty — Karly Burns, Fact Checker [caption id="attachment_130766" align="alignnone" width="300"] PHOTO: Courtesy of Awesomeness and ACE Entertainment[/caption] For those who love coming-of-age romance tropes, XO, Kitty will have you feeling butterflies. This spin-off of the To All The Boys I've Loved Before trilogy follows Kitty (Anna Cathcart) as she looks for her very own Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo). Kitty’s journey for love takes endless twists and turns that left me blushing and wanting more. Her first destination…
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Business Council of BC launches Stay With BC campaign
February 4, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer Launched in 2022 by the Albertan provincial government, the “Alberta is Calling” campaign was seen nationwide on newspaper covers, radio stations, and other advertisements. The goal of the campaign? To convince Canadians, especially those with “high-skilled…
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Student alleges scam recruitment at SFU
February 3, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer Editor’s note: The featured photo does not feature the people or locations involved in the incident described in this article. This photo was set up by the photographer without any intention of resembling the incident.…
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SFU study calls for utility-scale solar power systems in Canada
January 30, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer In December 2024, Clean Energy Research Group (CERG) published a paper calling for Canada to build “mass utility-scale solar mega projects,” according to an SFU news release. Utility-scale solar “refers to large solar installations designed…
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Shark Bowl: Canada’s Liberal leadership contenders
January 27, 2025By: Mason Mattu, Official Liberal party propagandist Trudeau’s 10-year leadership of the Liberal party is coming to an end. Liberal party officials have announced new party regulations for leadership races in the future. The party has declared a partnership…
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Winter weather worsens conditions for evicted CRAB Park residents
January 22, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer On November 7, 2024, “Vancouver’s only sanctioned [houseless] encampment” located at CRAB Park closed. The Vancouver Park Board previously sectioned off a designated area of the park for overnight sheltering. Evicted park residents who did…
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SFU student verbally harassed on campus by group of teenagers
January 13, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer Content warning: details of harassment, and racist and sexist language. The safety of SFU students is being questioned after an incident of verbal harassment against an SFU student occurred on the Burnaby Campus on November…
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SFU Faculty for Palestine responds to senior administrators meeting with Israeli ambassador
January 13, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer In September 2024, a group of SFU senior administrators met with Israel’s ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed. This information was published in an open letter from SFU Faculty for Palestine (F4P) on December 10 titled…
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2024 News Rewind
January 9, 2025By: Mason Mattu and Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writers Editor’s note: The ranking of these stories is roughly based on the number of articles written on each topic, whether these stories appeared on the cover of our weekly issues, and readership…
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We need to say goodbye to the Grammy Awards
December 16, 2024By: Mason Mattu, SFU Student You may have seen those viral videos on Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts that claim that Beyoncé is an evil figure in the music industry, or that singers or songwriters who don’t acknowledge her contributions…
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