pandemic
Canadian government announces 2021 stimulus of a $10 Steam card and some foil balloons
January 9, 2021The Canadian government held a press event today to discuss their new 2021 COVID-19 relief effort. A representative announced that the follow-up to their hefty $500 stimulus for single individuals living through eight months of economic disaster would be a $10 Steam card and some foil balloons. “We were confident that the $500 would be sufficient rent coverage for a long duration of time,” explained the representative during the screened press conference. “After checking some ledgers from the 1960s that excluded Vancouver, the entirety of Ontario, and basically every other location but Quesnel, British Columbia, we were confident in this…
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It won’t be a happy holiday unless we all do our part
November 30, 2020The holidays are just around the corner, and while I’m sure everyone is just itching to dive into festivities after this shitshow of a year, it’s important that we keep a grasp on the current state of the world. Before…
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This is just The Sims 5: The Simon Fraser University Expansion Pack
November 23, 2020Are you in the right headspace to receive information that could possibly hurt you? The only explanation for this absolutely horrible, disastrous, what-the-whole-entire-fuck period of time is, of course, some piece of shit staring at two monitors above their Razer…
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Plot-heavy porn soars in popularity as the pandemic leaves population lonely
November 18, 2020VANCOUVER, BC — A wholly baseless study done by two horny dudes on Reddit revealed that their equally horny online friends recently started searching for porn with painfully lengthy intros “just to feel something” this past week. u/gumcuzzler69 and u/asunamorelikeassuna…
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The Bright-er Side: Greater understanding from professors has been amplified by the pandemic
November 17, 2020Remote learning has been good at times, but the transition has also been stressful at times. Many of my online classes now have discussions on Canvas which require an extra effort to formulate ideas that wouldn’t be present in in-person…
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“I understand these are trying times,” says the professor making the times trying
November 9, 2020Subject Line: Paper now due Tuesday From: [email protected] To: AHH 101 (All Sections) Date: November 5, 3:33 a.m. Students, Many of you have asked for an extension on the 14-page organometallic chemistry paper due on Monday at 11:59 p.m., citing…
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Being an international student during the pandemic — to stay or to not stay?
October 31, 2020On March 12, 2020, four group members and I spent Thursday night discussing our projects over shared tuna stacks at Cactus Club Cafe. That night was the last time we got to see each other in-person, as none of us…
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Tales of pandemic defiance
October 3, 2020Please get out of my personal bubble, I just want a coffee With COVID-19 restrictions starting to lift, I was happy to be able to return to my favourite local coffee shop. While I wasn’t quite comfortable enough to take…
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Being a visually impaired student in the age of COVID-19
September 21, 2020This article is part of an ongoing series about how disabled students have transitioned to remote learning and pandemic living. “I've done a video editing course, I've done graphic design being fully blind,” said SFU Communication student Jill Sloane. “We…
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We need to prepare for the psychological fallout of COVID-19 before it hits
July 13, 2020A global pandemic is not a good time for anyone. Even those of us of the introvert persuasion are now looking at our four walls and wondering when it will be safe to have unrestricted interactions with friends and family…
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