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What Grinds Our Gears: Laughably inconvenient goSFU updates
November 26, 2024By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor SFU students like to complain about our digital infrastructure. I can attest to this because I am a student, and I’m complaining right now. Everything from Canvas being slow to courses filling up in minutes is enough to earn a top post in r/simonfraser. I like to imagine that SFU’s IT department had these posts in mind when they decided to schedule their latest update during most people’s enrollment dates — a crisp screw you to the haters. This isn’t a complaint against SFU’s IT department as a whole; I know it takes hard work…
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Traditional medicine is health care
September 26, 2024By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor Many people grow up believing that everything under the alternative medicine umbrella is false and misleading. However, this distrust can be particularly problematic when it carries over into traditional medicine. Evidence-based arguments fall short when…
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Keep your cats indoors!
September 18, 2024By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor Like most people, I always appreciate coming across a friendly neighbourhood feline. I love cats as much as any other cat person, but there’s no denying that outdoor cats wreak havoc on local ecosystems no…
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Bright-er side: Disabled queer solidarity
August 2, 2024By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor I’ve had many low points in my life, and during most of them I felt an unwavering sense of support from fellow disabled queers. From acts like offering free produce in a community group, to…
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Yes, disability justice concerns you too
August 2, 2024By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor As of 2022, 27% of Canadians 15 and older and 40% of seniors identified as having a disability. While 27% may not seem like a high number to you, consider that this means one of…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Traffic tailgaters
August 2, 2024By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor I can’t think of anyone who’s a fan of being tailgated. It’s not just the passive aggression that bugs me — small following distances are dangerous and horribly inefficient. It’s common sense that following too…
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I’m proud of my mobility aids
July 23, 2024By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor Around 57% of adults in Canada use a mobility aid. If that doesn’t sound correct to you, it’s probably because you’ve never realized that glasses are an assistive device. However, glasses have become commonplace in…
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Opinions in Dialogue: Should we worry about performative activism?
July 23, 2024By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer, and Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor Content warning: brief mentions of death and police brutality. Performative activism refers to actions taken by someone to project a persona of allyship without true dedication to the cause in…
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Residential school deniers show us colonialism is still rampant
June 17, 2024By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor Content warning: mentions of unmarked graves, genocide, death, and abuse. When more than 200 unmarked graves were discovered at Kamloops Residential School in 2021, a movement to uncover the extent of residential school graves gained…
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Wellness influencers should prioritize fact over fad
May 30, 2024By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor Content warning: discussions of diets and eating disorders. In an effort to improve my health by reducing symptoms like fatigue and digestive discomfort, I recently began paying more attention to my diet. I know I…
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