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Board Shorts: June 12, 2020
June 22, 2020Written by: Michelle Gomez, News Editor Here are the highlights from last Friday’s four-hour long Board meeting. Black in BC Community Emergency Support Fund contribution The Board carried a motion to contribute $3,000 to the Black in BC Community Support Fund for COVID-19. The motion was put forward by At-Large Representative Balqees Jama. “We have stated that as the SFSS we’re standing in solidarity with Black lives, and a part of that is to make sure that we support the Black community financially,” said Jama. She added that UBC’s student society, the AMS, has donated $6,000 to the same fund.…
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SFU walkout in support of the Unist’ot’en and Wet’suwet’en peoples results in march to President Petter’s office
January 24, 2019Written by: Michelle Gomez, News Team Member At 12 p.m. on January 18, a group of SFU students and other community members participated in a walkout in support of the Hereditary Chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in light of recent…
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SFSS lobbies provincial government for lower student loans, open access resources, and sexual violence policies
November 28, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor In a recent lobbying trip to Victoria, student directors from the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) met with provincial government representatives to advocate for restructuring student loans, open-education resources, and a review of…
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Forum raises concern tank farm poses “catastrophic” risk
July 9, 2018Written by: Cecile Favron, Peak Associate Dozens of concerned citizens gathered to discuss links between the potential for a devastating fire on Burnaby Mountain and the Kinder Morgan tank farm expansion at Simon Fraser University on June 28. “The…
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Year in Review
January 5, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor From reconciliation, to addressing sexual misconduct, to the political associations of our team name, 2017 was the year SFU opened up dialogue about issues that resonated in our community. We present a rundown…
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Kinder Morgan gears up for tank farm construction
October 17, 2017The construction that will double the size of the Kinder Morgan tank farm located on the side of Burnaby Mountain is soon to be underway. Trans Mountain, a subsidiary of Texas-based Kinder Morgan, has told The Peak that work to…
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Protesters rally against the Trans Mountain pipeline in Burnaby
May 29, 2017Westridge Park at the base of Burnaby Mountain saw the conclusion of a pilgrimage of protesters against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline on May 28. The Walk for the Salish Sea started in Victoria, with hundreds…
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Tanks farms, pipelines, and the safety of the SFU community
November 29, 2016Hidden in plain sight Upon starting your post-secondary studies at Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus, you might not notice at first that it is located above a tank farm. It is tucked away just below the Gaglardi Way and Hastings…
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Protesters march against pipeline in Vancouver streets
September 26, 2016“Can’t drink oil, keep it in the soil!” Vancouverites heard this and other chants on the morning of September 19, when about 20 protesters made their way through the downtown core protesting the construction of a Trans Mountain Pipeline in…
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COLUMN | THE POLITICAL EYE: Why pipeline expansion isn’t the worst idea
June 13, 2016[dropcap]P[/dropcap]ipelines: they’re hotly debated, especially at SFU where major protests against the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion have occurred in recent years. So, I will provide some arguments in favour of pipeline expansion in Canada, aside from the usual ‘growth of…
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