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Queerness, death, and resistance in What Happened to the Wolf?
August 7, 2025By: Thwin Than Thar Nway, SFU Student Content warning: Brief mention of suicide and homophobia. War doesn’t just destroy homes, take lives, or displace millions. In Myanmar, the civil war has also tried to silence the soul of the country: its songs, its art, and, especially, its media. In 2021 — the same year the military junta staged a coup and plunged the country into violence — What Happened to the Wolf?, directed by Na Gyi, was set for release. Sadly, due to the director and lead actor’s dissent against the junta, it never reached the domestic audience on the…
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Myanmar, four years into the military dictatorship
March 20, 2025By: George Shwe Zin, Peak Associate Content warning: Mentions of murder, massacres, conflict, and brief mention of mutilation. It was the last day of January, coup rumours from the previous days were dying down and I went to bed, hoping…
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An exploration of shinbyu and reincarnation in Myanmar
January 31, 2023By: Olivia Sherman, SFU student For Buddhist people in Myanmar, earning merit creates a better chance of a good life after rebirth. The pursuit of merit can be understood as “the Buddhist way to develop a wise sense of self”…
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Food for Thought: Nan Gyi Thoke
October 16, 2022By: Calvin Kaung Kyaw San, SFU student Burma is home to an impressive collection of mouth-watering (and often lip-burning) salads called athoke in Burmese, which translates to “mixed.” Athokes can be paired with rice, consumed as standalone dishes, or even…
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Myanmar, Once Again? looks at Myanmar’s civil disobedience movement
March 21, 2021Written by: Dev Petrovic, Staff Writer Rarely in Westerm mainstream media are events in foreign countries covered, which is why the political tension in Myanmar is not a topic that many people in the Western world are privy to. The…
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Protests held at Vancouver Art Gallery condemn Myanmar military coup
February 24, 2021by Petra Chase, SFU Student On February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military staged a coup. Armed soldiers occupied the streets and democratically-elected officials were detained. Protesters organized at the Vancouver Art Gallery on February 3 and 13 to reject their…
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Political Corner: Canada’s stance on the Rohingya genocide is all talk
January 14, 2020By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate In late August 2017, a genocide began against the Rohingya Muslim minority living in Myanmar. The catalyst for the genocide was an alleged terror attack carried out by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army that resulted in…
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World News Beats
September 9, 2018Written by: Kelly Grounds, SFU Student “Scallop War” breaks out between France and the UK An incident in which 35 French fishing boats chased five UK ones out of the Baie de Seine has been dubbed the “Scallop War.”…
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World News Beat
September 18, 2017By: Gabrielle McLaren ICELAND – Coalition government collapses in the midst of child abuse scandal Icelandic Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has called a snap election following the loss of its one-seat majority in parliament. Last Friday, the Bright Future party…
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World News Beat
September 9, 2017By: Nathaniel Tok MYANMAR – Thousands of people flee violence in the country Members of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar witnessed over 2,600 of their homes burned down last week. The United Nations refugee agency said that the situation has…
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