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The Clausgate Scandal: How Big Beverage tried to cancel Christmas
December 20, 2025By: Zainab Salam, Reporter in Hiding By the time the headline “Santa Claus Hates Everyone” ricocheted across the internet and news outlets, the world had already begun cancelling Christmas. Children sobbed into their half-eaten gingerbread men. Christmas influencers rebranded as “seasonally ambivalent creators.” One particular parenting blogger recommended replacing Santa with a “more emotionally available snowman,” noting that Frosty at least “shows up when he says he will and respects boundaries.” But as any good investigative publication knows, when a story smells fishy, it usually isn’t because of herring snacks at the North Pole. And so began our descent into…
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Panel discusses role of media in Russia-Ukraine war
November 8, 2022By: Pranjali J Mann, News Writer SFU Public Square, in collaboration with Digital Democracies Institute, SFU School of Communication, and SFU School for International Studies hosted a panel discussion on “The Russia-Ukraine War and Media.” The panel investigated the role…
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Halifax welcomes over 300 Ukrainian refugees to Canada
July 23, 2022By: Chloë Arneson, News Writer On June 2, a charter flight carrying 319 Ukrainians arrived in Halifax. Nova Scotia residents and host families greeted those arriving with welcome posters and gifts. To help Ukrainian citizens flee Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,…
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Tymofiy Mylovanov discusses the war in Ukraine
May 28, 2022By: Olivia Visser, Staff Writer On May 10, the SFU Economics Research Seminar series hosted Tymofiy Mylovanov for the seminar titled, Military and Economic Aspects of the War in Ukraine. Mylovanov is president of the Kyiv School of Economics, associate…
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Senate addresses supports for Ukrainian and Russian students
March 23, 2022By: Yelin Gemma Lee, News Writer Update on the motion to hire 15 Black faculty On March 7, during the question period, former SFSS president and student senator Gabe Liosis asked vice-president academic and provost senator Catherine Dauvergne for an update…
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Disproportionate reporting on invasion of Ukraine shows mainstream media’s racism
March 16, 2022By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer On February 25, 2022, CBS news reporter Charlie D’Agata said, “This is a relatively civilized, relatively European — I have to choose those words carefully, too — city where you wouldn’t expect that or hope that…
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Russian and Iranian internet trolls caused political interference in Canada’s 2015 election
March 9, 2021By: Karissa Ketter, News Writer SFU assistant professor Dr. Ahmed Al-Rawi is leading The Disinformation Project to study the effects of international state-run trolls. These are government sponsored internet trolls who are “magnifying controversial false claims, pushing negative views, and…
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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, 2020By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate On 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…
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World News Beat
June 15, 2018By: Trevor Steele, SFU Student Ethiopia accepts peace deal to end twenty year dispute with Eritrea Ethiopia’s recently elected government has announced that it will accept a 2002 ruling over disputed territories on its border with Eritrea, a decision…
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World News Beats
March 9, 2018By: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate Europe colder than the Arctic Europe is being engulfed by a cold spell, seeing temperatures plummet and leaving cities scrambling to shelter the homeless from the freezing weather, while places north of the Arctic Circle are…
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