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Tensions rise between India and Canada amid foreign interference allegations
November 6, 2024By: Mason Mattu, SFU Student Canada has expelled six Indian diplomats, including India’s High Commissioner to Canada, from the country. The announcement was made after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) stated on October 14 that there were threats against Sikh Canadians in an alleged intelligence-gathering campaign by Indian diplomatic officials. RCMP commissioner Mike Duheme said the RCMP recently uncovered a “significant amount of information” on the criminal activity “orchestrated by agents of the government of India and consequential threats to the safety and security” of Canadians. Further, he accused the Indian government of homicide against Canadians, especially pro-Khalistan Sikhs.…
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Police incident at SFU Burnaby campus on October 11, 2021
October 24, 2021By: Karissa Ketter, News Writer On October 11, 2021, SFU asked the community via Twitter to avoid the area surrounding the West Mall parkade at Burnaby campus, citing a police incident in progress. Roughly 45 minutes later, their subsequent tweet…
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RCMP Stand Down protests take place across BC
September 12, 2021By: Yelin Gemma Lee, News Writer On August 23, protestors rallied in front of RCMP offices for the “RCMP Stand Down” protests in BC. The 23 synchronous protests called for an end to the “illegal and violent actions of the RCMP”…
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SFU releases report on Black alumnus arrest
March 17, 2021Written by: Michelle Young, News Editor Content warning: descriptions of police violence. On March 11, president Joy Johnson released a report to the SFU community detailing the conclusions of a Black alumnus’ campus arrest. The report, which was conducted externally…
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Victims’ statements should be believed
January 11, 2021by Kyla Dowling, Staff Writer CW: Discussion of sexual assault, rape, policy brutality. In 2019, I sat in a room at the police station and told an officer about my sexual assault. “Why didn’t you report this sooner?”…
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Black SFU alumnus arrested on campus
January 9, 2021Editor's note: A previous version of this piece incorrectly stated that the SFSS called for a complete ban of the RCMP. This section has now been removed. Their statement notes that SFU should re-evaluate their relationship with the RCMP and calls for…
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Board Shorts (July 10, 2020)
July 21, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer The Board discusses Student Union Building space allocation for SFSS groups VP Finance Corbett Gildersleve brought forward a motion for a different space allocation for organizations set to move into the Student Union Building…
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Canada isn’t the moral haven some want to claim it is
June 13, 2020By: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer A few weeks ago, #MeanwhileInCanada was trending on Twitter with people comparing the anti-racism protests (fronted by George Floyd’s murder) to the supposed non-existence of similar racialized police violence in Canada. The hashtag has since been…
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Allowing the RCMP to recruit on campus undermines reconciliation efforts
February 23, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer Anyone who’s wandered past the BIG Fair or the Mini BIG Fair at SFU may have seen a booth set up for the RCMP. Some have already realized the hypocrisy that goes into having the RCMP…
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Political Corner: You can’t understand the Wet’suwet’en protests without knowing their history
February 22, 2020By: Miriam Abel and Weichun Kua, SFU Students Many Indigenous land defenders and their allies are outraged by the recent invasion of the Wet’suwet’en territory by the RCMP. Despite the fact that all protesters were unarmed and repeatedly said they were…
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