Noeka Nimmervoll
Cultural land trust in the works by City Council
September 8, 2026By: Noeka Nimmervoll, News Editor On July 15, COPE city councillor Sean Orr passed a motion at a City Finance and Services meeting, entitled Keep the Artists in: Creating a Cultural Land Trust for Vancouver. The motion aims to establish a “nonprofit cultural land trust” for Vancouver to facilitate the long-term presence of cultural spaces in Vancouver via providing “the structural permanence, flexibility, and credibility necessary to attract multi-sector investment.” The motion passed unanimously, with resolutions for mayor Ken Sim to initiate conversation with the provincial and federal governments on this trust, and for the staff to create a report…
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Keffiyeh Wednesdays at SFU beginning this fall
September 8, 2026By: Noeka Nimmervoll, News Editor Starting on September 9, SFU’s Faculty for Palestine (F4P-SFU) invites SFU community members to wear keffiyehs every Wednesday to show support for Palestine. Organized by members of F4P-SFU in coordination with pro-Palestine students, this campaign…
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Meet the masthead: Introducing our team
September 7, 2026By: Petra Chase, Features Editor Abbey Perley spent two of three years at The Peak as production editor. She’s returned to assistant production editor for her last two semesters before taking on the world with a degree in Interactive Arts…
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The VPL staff do much more than shelving books
May 10, 2026By: Noeka Nimmervoll, News Editor When it comes to serving the community, nobody does it quite like the staff at the Vancouver Public Library (VPL). In the midst of an increasingly unaffordable city, the VPL staff maintain a free space…
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Data centres at SFU spark concerns of possible Burnaby Tank Farm explosion
March 30, 2026By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Writer Data centres at SFU were established in 2074 and have since powered the AI chatbots that help run the university. These chatbots, which range from personalized AI for individual professors to fully functioning executives, use…
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SFU Canadian Cancer Society hosts 12th annual Relay for Life
March 24, 2026By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Writer On March 21, the SFU Canadian Cancer Society (SFUCCS) hosted their annual Relay for Life fundraising event for the Canadian Cancer Society. Relay for Life is a Canada-wide student-led initiative organized at schools across the…
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The BC health-care system should eliminate barriers to access
March 16, 2026By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Writer An apple a day might keep the doctor away, but so do barriers to accessing them. Health-care services and personal health information are increasingly going online, which makes it important that services, like booking vaccinations…
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Black women musicians and the stubborn R&B label
March 16, 2026By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Writer and Petra Chase, Features Editor Black women in music tend to get boxed into one repeated spot: rhythm and blues, more commonly known as R&B. Black artists in general tend to get pigeonholed in genres…
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Climate change solutions and Indigenous sovereignty are deeply connected
March 10, 2026By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Writer For grassroots activists, it may feel like a brutal time to care about the planet, when our leaders do not. By 2035, it is predicted that we will hit a global temperature of 1.5℃ above…
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Pilates is for babies . . . is what I said before I tried it
March 9, 2026By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Diva The Navy SEALs taught me that nothing is forever except discipline. Now that I’m retired, I pump five tonnes of steel in my garage every day for 15 minutes straight like the beast I am,…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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