Paige Riding
SFSS report reveals favoured route for the anticipated Burnaby Mountain Gondola Transit project
May 18, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) released a report detailing the feedback they received from the Burnaby community on Translink’s Burnaby Mountain Gondola Transit (BMGT) project. In late January, the SFSS held an open house on the project, which saw over 700 participants containing students and SFU community members. The session that ran on Burnaby Campus from January 21 and 22 gave the SFU community an opportunity to learn about the project and provide their input. Previous VP University Relations Shina Kaur elaborated on the open house in an email interview with The Peak.…
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Vancouver residents protest COVID-19 regulations with #EndtheLockdown
May 17, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer “Make Orwell Fiction Again,” read a tweet under the #EndtheLockdown hashtag on Twitter, a trend created by individuals protesting the current government orders regarding COVID-19. In the Vancouver area beginning in April 2020, participants…
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Peak Speaks Podcast – What Grinds our Gears
May 15, 2020Listen here: https://pod.link/1464226637
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Your weekly SFU horoscopes: May 11–17
May 11, 2020Written by Paige Riding, News Writer Aries: How’s that “grass is greener on the other side” mindset going for you now? Take the time to forgive yourself for that compulsory Amazon purchase. Which one, you ask? Maybe the one that didn’t…
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Incoming SFSS President Osob Mohamed looks forward to a year of student activism and positive change
May 11, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer Newly elected Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) President Osob Mohamed may have started her term in the midst of a pandemic, but that has not dampened her excitement for the upcoming year. The previous…
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Canada announces funding to assist post-secondary students during COVID-19 pandemic
May 10, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer On April 22, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) action plan to provide approximately $9 billion to domestic post-secondary students during the COVID-19 pandemic. From the months of May…
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How SFU and representatives of the disability community came together to improve the Re-use for Good initiative
April 3, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer In the Fall 2019 semester, SFU rolled out the Re-use for Good initiative across its three campuses. The initiative focuses on reducing single-use plastics in various areas, including dining locations and the SFU Bookstore.…
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Research Roundup: March 2020
March 30, 2020By: Paige Riding, News Writer SFU researchers have been contributing to the research efforts related to the COVID-19 virus. The researchers mentioned in this piece responded to a funding opportunity announced by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) earlier…
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Minimart to close its doors after this exam season as rent hikes
March 23, 2020By: Paige Riding, News Writer Minimart, the small convenience store in Maggie Benston Centre (MBC), will reportedly close its doors in the third week of March. Gideon Wong and Carrie Li, the married store owners, said in an interview with…
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CONFESSIONALS: I’m a third-year English major with no clue what a thesis is
March 23, 2020By: Paige Riding, News Writer I have something to confess that I’m really upset about, SFU. I’m finishing up my third year under your roof and, in all honesty, I don’t really know how I got here in the first…
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