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My letter to the News Editor: It’s time to put the fake back in news
June 13, 2025Dear Hannah (The Peak’s News Editor), I write to you today as both a concerned member of the SFU student body and a staff writer for The Peak. With every passing day, I become more convinced that we must deviate from our current approach to journalism — fact-based, unbiased, legally sound — and find a more enthralling manner of sharing the news. Simply put, it is time to put the fake back in the news section of The Peak! If we have to trample over Canada’s libel laws to get there, so be it. I realize this may sound extreme.…
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Can news platforms build trust in a fractured world?
May 12, 2025We find ourselves in a world where news media thrives on crises. Headlines are designed to scare, intimidate, divide, and most of all, keep us clicking. Across the world and he political spectrum, people are quick to claim “the other…
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Activists protest recent TMX agreement at Burnaby City Hall
February 10, 2025Content warning: brief mention of violence against an Indigenous person. On January 28, climate activists and community members gathered at Burnaby City Hall to oppose the city’s recent community contribution agreement with Trans Mountain Corporation. The agreement involves an expenditure…
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Over 2,000 people killed in Lebanon
October 22, 2024Since September 23, escalating Israeli airstrikes targeting the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah have killed nearly 2,000 people in Lebanon and displaced over one million at the time of writing this article. These attacks, which included the killing of Hezbollah’s former…
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Burnaby Task Force to address unhoused population
October 17, 2024In June 2023, the City of Burnaby launched the Mayor’s Task Force on Unsheltered Community Members. The team aims to respond to the unhoused population in Burnaby by taking an interdisciplinary approach to increasing shelter capacity and accessibility. The task…
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Council Chats: Numerous by-elections to be held
October 15, 2024Editor’s note: we recognize that The Peak has an interest in the fee increase discussed at this meeting. The coverage in this article was undertaken by a member of our editorial team who’s not involved or informed by the non-editorial…
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SFU master’s student pushes for bird-friendly windows on campus
October 9, 2024SFU master’s of biological sciences student Vanessa Hum has been working to make the Burnaby campus more bird-friendly. Over nearly half a year, Hum recorded bird-window collisions and estimated over 2,000 collisions occurred during this period. She found mortalities in…
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UBCM passes resolution for better provincial hearing healthcare
October 9, 2024On September 19, a resolution calling for provincial hearing healthcare funding was passed at a Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) meeting in Vancouver. The resolution was presented by the District of Saanich Council and reflects the work of Help BC…
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Anti-SOGI protests outnumbered by counter-protests
October 5, 2024On September 20, parents against the addition of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) program to public schools organized “1 Million March 4 Children” protests across BC. Global News reported that the turnout for these protests was “sparse in…
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Indigenous housing and substance use recovery site launched in Kelowna
October 1, 2024A housing site for Indigenous parents and children impacted by substance use recently opened in Kelowna. The site, named Tupa’s Lodge, will support eight residents at a time over a two-year period and is the first housing site in the…
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