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SFU hosts provincial election forum on transportation
October 21, 2020Written by: Mahdi Dialden, News Writer The 2020 Provincial Election All Candidates' Forum on Mobility and Land-Use, hosted by the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, took place on October 15 via Zoom. The event was centred around a debate on various mobility and environmental issues like transportation emissions and highway expansions. The forum consisted of three candidates running during this month’s BC election. Bowinn Ma, BC NDP candidate for North Vancouver-Lonsdale, George Affleck, BC Liberals candidate for Vancouver-Fairview, and Harrison Johnston, BC Greens candidate for North Vancouver-Seymour, all represented their respective parties for the debate. Questions were asked…
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NDP pledges SFU will get BC’s second medical school program
October 18, 2020Written by: Karissa Ketter, News Writer The BC NDP announced that upon re-election, they will begin the conversation with SFU to put British Columbia’s second medical school at the Surrey campus. The Peak interviewed NDP Burnaby-Lougheed Member of the Legislative…
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An overview of BC’s 42nd provincial election
October 10, 2020Written by: Michelle Young, News Editor On September 21, Premier John Horgan called a provincial election for October 24. While BC had an election date set for October 2021, Horgan cited COVID-19 as the reason for the early election, stating…
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Former MP Svend Robinson appointed as SFU’s J.S. Woodsworth Resident Scholar
July 27, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer Civil activist and former Member of Parliament (MP) Svend Robinson has been named the J.S. Woodsworth Resident Scholar in the SFU humanities department. This is for a one-year term beginning September 1, 2020, during…
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SFYOU: Alumna Yvonne Hanson takes her environmental and humanitarian activism to the federal campaign
October 15, 2019By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Name: Yvonne Hanson Pronouns: She/her/hers Department Affiliation: BA, Political Science Hometown: Squamish, BC Occupation: NDP candidate for Vancouver-Granville, portrait photographer, customer service worker at a garden store. Only one year after graduating with her…
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Election rundown: The NDP have little chance of winning a majority and should focus on a coalition instead
October 12, 2019By: Connor Stephenson, SFU Student Jagmeet Singh and his New Democratic Party are riding the perpetual struggle bus. The troubles for the NDP initially began with difficulty attempting to nominating candidates across the country, and continues in the form of a…
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Jagmeet Singh comes to Burnaby Clubs Days
January 22, 2019The party leader visited campus to meet students and hear what they had to say
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SFYou: Katrina Chen’s road to becoming Burnaby-Lougheed’s MLA
November 3, 2018By: Youeal Abera, Staff Writer Fast facts Name: Katrina Chen Pronouns: She / her / hers Department affiliation: Political science and history Hometown: Chen was born in Taiwan, but has lived in British Columbia for many years Occupation: Aside from…
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What the NDP and Green parties could have in store for BC
June 12, 2017By: Sarvin Samei On May 29, NDP leader John Horgan and Green Party leader Andrew Weaver shocked the province by announcing a joint partnership and signing an agreement in order to solidify a minority government. That’s a big slap in…
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A breakdown of the BC provincial election
June 5, 2017By: Alan Radziwil The BC Greens and the BC NDP brokered a historic deal last week with the intent to form the province’s new government. After a tight race this election, and a vote recount that put the outcome on hold…
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