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A lack of inter-provincial travel restrictions in BC is exhausting
March 3, 2021Since the initial COVID-19 shutdown, the federal government has encouraged us not to engage in non-essential travel outside of Canada, and to limit travel between provinces. However, in BC, recent reports from Whistler show that many of their guests are visiting from both Ontario and Quebec. Because BC’s inter-provincial travel restrictions are so inconsistent with a good portion of Canada, mere suggestions of staying put are not enough to sway everybody. BC needs to make these more uniform with the rest of Canada to strengthen the fight against COVID-19. Many other provinces have strict inter-provincial travel restrictions. Manitoba recently updated…
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BC NDP set to win a historic majority
November 7, 2020The BC New Democratic Party (NDP) is set to win a record amount of seats in the provincial legislature. With votes not fully counted, absentee ballots are set to be counted on November 6, with November 16 being the target…
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Political Breakdown: A friendly reminder of all the negatives from each party and their ideologies
October 22, 2020A snap provincial election has been called for October 24, and while voting during a pandemic is less than desirable, so are the options of who to vote for. Despite this, elections remain an important, but singular form of political…
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SFU hosts provincial election forum on transportation
October 21, 2020The 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…
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NDP pledges SFU will get BC’s second medical school program
October 18, 2020The 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 Assembly, Honourable Katrina Chen, to discuss…
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An overview of BC’s 42nd provincial election
October 10, 2020On 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 that “this pandemic will be with…
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Former MP Svend Robinson appointed as SFU’s J.S. Woodsworth Resident Scholar
July 27, 2020Civil 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 which Robinson will teach a seminar…
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SFYOU: Alumna Yvonne Hanson takes her environmental and humanitarian activism to the federal campaign
October 15, 2019Name: 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 bachelor’s degree from SFU, Yvonne Hanson…
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Election rundown: The NDP have little chance of winning a majority and should focus on a coalition instead
October 12, 2019Jagmeet 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 crippling deficit that makes…
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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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