opinion
Free your sexuality, free yourself
September 8, 2015Gay, straight, bisexual: as a university student in British Columbia, I am fairly confident that you know what these words mean, and you have more than likely identified yourself as one of these three options at some point These are words we hear thrown around often as concrete, unnegotiable labels that tend to feel inescapable. This is nothing new. When it comes to a human’s sexual orientation, being put into an inflexible box is all too common — most of us have come to expect and even occupy fixed sexual identities. There have always been those who argue that sexuality…
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Canada’s first Prime Minister shouldn’t be on the $10 bill
September 8, 2015Have you ever held a crisp new bill straight from the ATM and asked yourself, what would I have to do to get myself on one of these? The answer is really quite simple: if you come from a background…
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Strengthening northern Canada through an established university system
September 8, 2015We are lucky to live in the southern portion of Canada, as we have relatively decent weather, closely spaced communities, and easy access to postsecondary education. However, this is not the case for the majority of Canadians living in the…
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What’s this nonsense about lack of community at SFU?
September 8, 2015When I told my friends at UBC Okanagan three years ago that I would be attending SFU to study communication, I was met with distaste. “You know that SFU has the highest suicide rate in the whole country, right?” “It’s…
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Herself.com brings the female body back to reality
August 4, 2015Australian actress Caitlin Stasey recently released images of a conversation she had with a popular magazine’s editor who had refused to feature her when she turned down a nude photo-shoot. According to Stasey, the editor of Good Weekend magazine assumed…
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Bring more plug-in cars to Canada
August 4, 2015With the ever-steady rise in gas prices, driving my car from Coquitlam to Vancouver is costing more and more every day. As an individual looking for an alternative, the fabled electric cars caught my eye. Now here’s something that wouldn’t…
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My university is letting me down
August 4, 2015Recently, I have taken no pleasure in telling people that I am an SFU student. The source of my newfound shame stems entirely from the university’s union busting and poor labour relations with the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU). In…
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Life is short. Don’t lie to your spouse.
July 27, 2015Beside a painstakingly airbrushed image of a manicured finger pressed against rosy, seductive lips, Toronto-based adultery website Ashley Madison whispers its slogan to philanderers: “Life is short. Have an affair.” It seems the little devil on 37 million shoulders has…
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Transfer student survival guide: make connections
July 27, 2015You know those friends that you don’t really know but you have on Facebook because you met once at a party? Well, in August 2014, I convinced a ‘kind-of’ friend of mine to meet me for coffee, and that is…
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Consent is not something you can just write down
July 27, 2015Let me just address the preemptive elephant in the room. I believe that any sexual activity should include equal consent between all participants, and that’s exactly what the Affirmative Consent Project (ACP) seeks to do. The ACP has created a…
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