Noeka Nimmervoll
SFU Burnaby receives Indigenous place names
October 19, 2026On September 16, SFU News announced that the Indigenous Host Nations whose lands SFU Burnaby resides on — the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) — bestowed SFU Burnaby with Indigenous place names for five locations. The locations’ names are in hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, respectively. Burnaby Mountain is xʷtatəl̕ləm ʔə ƛ̓ səltaɬ sme:nt / Xwta7ltáw̓txw tl’a Lheḵw’lhúḵw’aytn. Other SFU locations are as follows: the First People’s Gathering House is sƛ̓exənew̓txʷ / Tl’e7enḵáw̓txw, the Indigenous Student Centre is q̓pəθətew̓txʷ / Ḵxwúsemay̓aḵin, the Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre is xʷəlməxʷaʔɬ tatəl̕ew̓txʷ / Xwtél̓ay, and the Indigenous Garden is spən̓əm /…
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Students raise concern over McTaggart-Cowan Hall living conditions
October 19, 2026SFU’s McTaggart-Cowan Hall reopened for the fall 2025 term after undergoing renovations that lasted nearly two years. However, early this fall semester, it was met with mixed online reviews concerning the cleanliness of the building. In a Reddit post that…
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ABC and mayor Sim add poll on drug use and involuntary care to municipal election
September 26, 2026On August 14, the City of Vancouver announced that two non-binding plebiscites, or polling questions, will be added to the ballot of the 2026 Vancouver municipal election, which will take place on October 17. They ask whether the City of…
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SFU announces changes to parking policy on campus
September 20, 2026On September 1, several revisions to SFU’s parking lots and service areas policies took effect. The university made notable changes, including designating separate areas for permit parking users and visitors, hourly parkers, and Flexpass users in the north and east…
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Labour Day DJ party hit Granville pedestrian zone
September 13, 2026On September 7, the Granville pedestrian zone hosted an end-of-summer Labour Day block party. The pedestrian zone is now closed but was marked by a block party called Granville DJ festival, at the start of September. The Granville pedestrian zone,…
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Cultural land trust in the works by City Council
September 8, 2026On 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”…
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Keffiyeh Wednesdays at SFU beginning this fall
September 8, 2026Starting 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 aims to symbolically show support…
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Meet the masthead: Introducing our team
September 7, 2026Abbey 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 and Technology. Asked about how…
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The VPL staff do much more than shelving books
May 10, 2026When 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 that serves people from all…
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Data centres at SFU spark concerns of possible Burnaby Tank Farm explosion
March 30, 2026Data 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 significant amounts of energy and…
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