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Wet’suwet’en Student Walkout draws crowd of around 100 to Convocation Mall
March 9, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Students gathered in Convocation Mall on the afternoon of March 4 to listen to Indigenous speakers, singers, and drummers during a Student Walkout in support of the Wet’suwet’en nation. As the Walkout’s media advisory described, “The nation-wide student walkout is a peaceful, decentralized action of solidarity. Students across the country stand firmly in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and will continue to do so until their demands have been fully met. Our academic institutions are complicit in this violent violation of Wet’suwet’en sovereignty. Many institutions have declined to make a statement, and maintain Foundation and…
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Students block Gaglardi in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en
March 9, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Following a rally in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation at Convocation Mall, a group of Indigenous and settler students marched down Burnaby Mountain to block part of the intersection at Gaglardi Way and University Drive East.…
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SFU students organize silent protest of RCMP at event in Saywell Hall
February 17, 2020Written by: Harvin Bhathal, News Writer Two SFU students, Miri Abel and Iulia Zgreaban, held a silent protest in front of an RCMP display at SFU Burnaby Campus on Thursday, February 6. The event, titled “Behind the Badge,” was hosted by…
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Student walkout organized in support of Wet’suwet’en First Nation
February 3, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer On Monday January 27 at 10:00 a.m., SFU students and community members participated in a walkout in support of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. They gathered in Convocation Mall before joining a larger protest at…
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You can’t take United We Roll seriously when it serves as a platform for hate and climate change denial
March 2, 2019Written by: Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor The Sparknotes version of United We Roll’s story is that a convoy of trucks traveled from Red Deer to Ottawa in the hopes of raising concerns over Alberta’s economic development with Prime Minister Justin…
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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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Students demand that “SFU Freeze Tuition Now!” as the university plans fee hikes
November 5, 2018Written by: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor SFU is proposing an increase in tuition fees, but students are not happy. On October 23, SFU administration emailed students to invite them to a consultation session on their proposed tuition hikes,…
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ChangeSFU protests against government bailout of Kinder Morgan pipeline
May 25, 2018By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor On May 8, SFU’s student-run environmental activism group, ChangeSFU, organized a casserole rally at the constituency office of Terry Beech — the MP for Burnaby North-Seymour — to demonstrate opposition to a Kinder…
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Local residents stage anti-Kinder Morgan protest at public safety office
October 24, 2017By: Aliocha Perriard-Abdoh Local residents rallied against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain tank farm yesterday at the base of Burnaby Mountain in front of a local branch of the federal public safety office. The protest called a…
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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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