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Workers should have the right to strike
June 29, 2026Striking is an important part of negotiating fairer labour conditions. But for essential workers, striking is not an option as they provide a service that’s required by the public to keep those services accessible to the public. Canada’s labour code covers a wide range of areas including collective bargaining and some private workplaces that are federally regulated, like postal workers and flight attendants for airlines. Yet, recent consultations could reconfigure what an essential worker is thereby removing the right to strike for more workers. For others, the minister of labour can invoke section 107 of the code to end strikes,…
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The only energy superpower Canada should become is green
June 22, 2026Canada’s attempts to balance economic growth in the oil sector while limiting the ecological damage seem to be failing. With the new emissions and pipeline deal with Alberta, and natural gas pipeline approved for northern BC, Canada is expanding its…
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Political Corner: BC MLA Tara Armstrong shouldn’t be in her position
June 15, 2026Content warning: mentions of anti-Indigenous, transphobic, and anti-semitic language. Tara Armstrong, a member of the legislative assembly (MLA) representing the Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream district in the BC legislature, caused an uproar by implying that the New Democratic Party’s (NDP) approach to…
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Political Corner: Student debt cancellation is smart, not selfish
September 23, 2022Last month, US President Joe Biden announced plans to cancel up to $20,000 USD in federal student loan debt per person. This is a monumental decision for roughly 48 million US students holding onto student debt. Despite the fact that…
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Political Corner: The thin blue line patch is a betrayal of public trust
June 14, 2022Content warning: police brutality, racism, and anti-Indigenous violence Amid calls for police accountability, the thin blue line patch has emerged as the subject of heated debate. Police, even those in Vancouver, argue the symbol represents innocent camaraderie among police officers,…
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Political Corner: Why it’s important to implement ecocide
October 25, 2021In the last year alone, a BC town was burned down by raging forest fires, flooding in Germany and China killed hundreds, and the southwest United States faced its worst drought in a century. Climate change is accelerating and emissions…
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Political Corner: Canada cannot call itself a leader on international climate action
October 16, 2021The world’s latest chance to collectively start scaling back fossil fuel production is right around the corner. The 26th Conference of the Parties, or COP26, is a meeting of the 197 signatories to the 1995 United Nations Framework Convention on…
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Political Corner: Trudeau’s stubbornness in the Wanzhou extradition case is an incredible failure of duty
July 28, 2020Our prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has shown clear negligence in his responsibilities as our leader in the mishandling of Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case. Despite a clear pattern of behaviour in Chinese retaliation to Canadian criminal…
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Political Corner: Trump’s inaction on the Russian bounties should not be allowed to fall out of the news cycle
July 19, 2020On June 26, 2020, the New York Times released a report that claimed American intelligence had determined that a Russian military intelligence unit had offered bounties to militants to kill Afghanistan coalition forces. The disturbing part of the report was…
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Political Corner: Last minute efforts cost Canada its Security Council seat
July 5, 2020On June 17, the United Nations held a vote for five of the 10 non-permanent Council seats for the 2021–22 term. The countries that were elected to the Council for the next term are India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, and Norway.…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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