Prerita Garg
Post-secondary education funding is mishandled
May 18, 2026By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer Studying in BC is more inaccessible than ever before, especially if you’re an international student. In 2024, federal limitations on study permits led to a 66% drop in permit approvals for international students. In 2023, 456,690 international student permits were granted federally; this number shrunk to just 50,370 for the first nine months of 2025. Post-secondary institutions should never have relied so much on the funding that comes from international students to begin with. Public funding for post-secondary education in BC has dropped 41% since 2000, and doesn’t look to be rising anytime soon —…
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What Grinds Our Gears: multi-factor authentication
March 10, 2026By: Nejdana Houshyar, SFU Student I can’t be the only one who despises multi-factor authentication (MFA). If you are a student at SFU, you have likely experienced the frustrating process of trying to log in to Canvas or goSFU only…
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Students express frustration over Canvas outage during finals season
January 5, 2026By: Niveja Assalaarachchi, News Writer From 11:00 p.m. on December 14 to 4:00 a.m. on December 15, 2025, SFU Canvas experienced a service outage that left students unable to upload assignments or access course materials. Students took to the r/simonfraser…
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Investing in mail service is a nation-sustaining project
December 18, 2025By: Sofia Chassomeris, Peak Associate Like many of us recently, Canada Post has a money problem: they don’t have enough. On September 25, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ (CUPW) strike resumed in response to a statement by the minister…
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The University Act is being misused to conceal the responsibilities of academic institutions
June 15, 2025By: Corbett Gildersleve, News Writer On September 9, 2024, president Joy Johnson released a statement explaining why SFU abstains from commenting on “partisan political matters and current events.” This statement came after sustained pressure from students and faculty for SFU…
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#NotClueless: I, like, totally attended the Met Gala
May 29, 2025By: Zainab Salam, Influencer of Influencers Today, I have to start with a confession; I was totally buggin’. Because, like, can you even imagine being personally invited to the Met Gala? Well, I could. Not to brag, but your girl…
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SFSS holds 2024 annual general meeting
November 21, 2024By: Lexey Burns, SFU Student On October 30, the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) held their annual general meeting (AGM). During the meeting, executives went over the 2023–24 financial report, passed amendments to bylaws, went over committee highlights, and had…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: SFU’s free fall activities
November 15, 2024By: Manal Kashif, SFU Student The fall season can feel a bit lonely as the gloomy weather takes over. However, you can rest assured, as SFU Burnaby has several events planned for the upcoming month — grab your friends or…
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Transit to SFU should be improved
October 30, 2024By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer This isn’t the first time we’ve written about the unfortunate parking circumstances at the SFU Burnaby campus, and it’s clear that it won’t be the last until some real reform happens. It seems my silly…
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SFU lab makes breakthrough in reversing Parkinson’s disease
September 16, 2024By: Caitlin Kingsmill, News Writer In July, researchers at SFU’s Verheyen Lab and the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas identified a gene that may reverse symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The Verheyen lab was exploring the role of a gene…
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