Money
Watching sports should be affordable
January 23, 2025Like everything these days, the cost of living has skyrocketed. As well, the expense of sports has gotten out of hand — what do you mean it costs a couple of hundred dollars to check out a professional sports match? Currently, the average price of a Canucks game goes for well over $300 in Vancouver. Half-season passes and memberships for last season started around $300 per payment (with five required in the season), and went all the way up to $4,800 for a package of single club-section seats. The Canucks’ Student Rush program offered discounted tickets for post-secondary students, with…
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SFU’s financial aid falls short of helping international students
February 28, 2022University is very freaking expensive. As an international fourth-year Arts and Social Sciences student, I pay between $12,000 to $13,000 every semester. That’s a large sum of money. The stress of every tuition deadline starts wreaking havoc in most middle-class…
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Tuition Breakdown: Summer 2021
May 10, 2021In November 2020, students received an email from vice president, academic and provost pro tem Jonathan Driver and vice president, finance and administration Martin Porchuko regarding tuition. In the email, they said SFU’s Board of Governors “approved a 2% increase…
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The Bright-er Side: Staying home is an opportunity to save money
January 25, 2021The pandemic has brought an onslaught of financial hardships for many. Job loss to small business struggles only skim the surface of these challenges. However, with fewer places to go and fewer things to do for students, financial stress can…
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SFU economics alumnus solves Canadian global debt crisis by suggesting we “print more money”
January 24, 2021VANCOUVER, BC — A recent graduate from the SFU department of economics, Matthew Lashuk, has gone where no other economist with a basic understanding of the capitalist proceedings of the world has ever gone before. In a widely read and…
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Two SFU professors receive $300,000 grants from Innovate BC
July 15, 2020Two SFU professors have been awarded $300,000 each in grant money through Innovate BC’s Ignite Program, out of four total winners. Dr. Martin Ester, a computing science professor, won the award for his collaboration with Terramera on a new computer…
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Course syllabi need to be more upfront about the hidden costs of classes
October 20, 2019It’s the first day of class and I’m leaving the bookstore with my reusable SFU tote bag breaking at the seams. After dropping nearly $400 on books, I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to afford the gas to…
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Provincial government launches two-pronged probe on money laundering
October 31, 2018September 27 marked the start of Attorney General David Eby’s early-June promise of a second phase of investigation into money laundering in B.C. Based on a recent provincial news release, Eby is fulfilling that promise with a “two-pronged review aimed…
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Have your cake and make money too
October 17, 2016[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s soon as you're old enough to be asked what you want to do with your life, you get caught in the never ending tug-of war: should I study what I love, or study what will help me make bank?…
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Young adults who still live at home aren’t mooching
July 25, 2016[dropcap]F[/dropcap]orty-two percent of adults aged 20–29 live with their parents, according to Statistics Canada. Of those, Statistics Canada found that 90 percent don’t contribute to household expenses. Now, everyone’s situation is different, but I do believe that adults in their…
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