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January update on SFU’s contract workers
January 12, 2026By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Students returning to campus this week will be greeted by a new year, a fresh semester, and an updated syllabus. For the university’s contracted workers, however, the push for better wages continues. While the idea of being a living wage employer has been a topic of discussion for over a decade, it was not until July 2022 that SFU announced it would begin taking steps to obtain a living wage certification. Most recently, the university provided an updated statement in January 2025, stating that “Simon Fraser University continues to implement a living wage for employees…
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Brighter Side: a love letter to children’s books
June 15, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer I first met The Little Prince as a child, but it feels more accurate to say the book met — and saw — through me. It told me that imagination was not foolish, that love…
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Concerns arise around controversial instructor’s past
June 4, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Content warning: mentions of sexual violence, misogyny, the death penalty, homophobia, and transphobia. SFU has recently come under fire for its alleged decision to hire Gleb Glebov as a sessional instructor for the 2025 summer…
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Canada’s 2025 Express Entry system updates stall the government from solving its own problems
March 18, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer The government of Canada is no stranger to using immigration to exploit foreign labour and distract from the source of the country’s domestic woes. They have done it again with the new year’s changes…
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Brighter Side: Quiet library floors
January 30, 2025By: Samia Chowdhury, SFU Student For me, being on the Burnaby campus inevitably means seeking out the quietest floors of the library. The satisfaction of finding a perfect, secluded desk with panels on three sides, nestled among rows of heavily…
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SFU Faculty for Palestine responds to senior administrators meeting with Israeli ambassador
January 13, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer In September 2024, a group of SFU senior administrators met with Israel’s ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed. This information was published in an open letter from SFU Faculty for Palestine (F4P) on December 10 titled…
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SFU increases car allowance perk for executives amid summer layoffs
December 2, 2024By: Hannah Fraser, News Editor In July, The Peak received word from the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) that SFU decided to increase the vehicle allowance perk for SFU executives by about $75,000. A vehicle allowance is a payment made by…
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The problem with SFU phasing out paper towels
November 19, 2024By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer If you’ve walked into a campus washroom lately, you’ve probably seen an empty paper towel dispenser with a note that says, “SFU is phasing out paper towel use on campus washrooms” and directs you to…
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SFU Safe app launched to strengthen campus security
November 6, 2024By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer This October, SFU’s department of safety and risk services (SRS) released an official university safety app called SFU Safe. The SRS’ services include “campus public safety, enterprise risk and resilience, and environmental health and safety.” …
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AM 730 off air leaves Vancouver without a dedicated traffic broadcast
August 2, 2024By: Kaja Antic, Staff Writer “Gone!” reads the last tweet from the @AM730Traffic X account, sent at 7:39 a.m. on June 26 — before the station would quietly cease operations later that afternoon. Under the call sign CKGO, AM 730…
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