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I found my ambition at this newspaper

EIC April 7, 2015

[caption id="attachment_2263" align="alignright" width="400"] Photo Credit: Brandon Hillier[/caption] When I graduated high school, I wasn’t a particularly decisive person. I decided to go straight to post-secondary from high school because I didn’t know what else to do with myself. I ended up going to SFU because it’s where my friends weren’t going, and my small rebellious streak resented the idea of following everyone else to UBC. I also wasn’t overly ambitious. I enjoyed doing well in school and in my menial teenage jobs, but I didn’t push myself in the same way that my overachieving pals did. I wandered through…

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Jamie Oliver, leave a child’s diet alone

EIC April 7, 2015

[caption id="attachment_2043" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/caption] This Christmas I sat down, flipped on my TV, and engulfed myself in the guilty delights of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Comfort Food series. As a trickle of drool anointed my…

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Guns kill people but gun control saves lives

EIC April 7, 2015

[caption id="attachment_2055" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Earlier this week, the Canadian Supreme Court decided in a 5–4 decision that the Federal government is entitled to destroy all of Quebec’s data from the long-gun registry (LGR), which was…

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The Peak staff picks their 2015 SFSS candidates!

EIC March 22, 2015

[caption id="attachment_1774" align="alignnone" width="970"] Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons[/caption] *Please note that the followings represents the views of some of The Peak staff and do not reflect the views of the Peak Publications Society.    The Peak’s editorial staff submitted votes…

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Ask Professor Peak Week 2

EIC January 12, 2015

Help! If I drop out of university, I’ll be shaming my parents! DEAR PROFESSOR PEAK: I feel like I’m in university to please my parents. Being an only child from a wealthy family of university graduates, my parents expect me…

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Ask Professor Peak: Week 1

EIC January 6, 2015

Are you an SFU student or faculty member who needs some relationship, student, or SFU related advice? In 150 words or less, send your issues anonymously by visiting the-peak.ca/professorpeak. Your entry could be published in our next issue, along with…

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