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What Grinds Our Gears: The intersection of Arts and East Campus Road
July 19, 2026By: Sasha Rubick, Fact Checker Imagine, if you will, a perfectly normal intersection at SFU. There are cheerful pedestrians walking to UniverCity, Blusson, or the SFU Exchange. If you want to take the fastest-possible route to UniverCity, you can take one of the crosswalks and then go diagonally for a few meters. That saves you about 15 seconds of the invaluable time you have left on this mortal coil, neat! Well now, the crosswalks at the intersection of Arts and East Campus Road have been redrawn. But pedestrians will do as pedestrians do, from jumping the turnstiles in NYC to…
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Reflections of an arts student at SFU prior to graduating
June 22, 2026By: Tracey Ho, SFU Student While I had always enjoyed arts in high school, being a student at SFU’s School for Contemporary Arts (SCA) for the past five years made me realize just how much more there was to learn…
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SFU’s ecofeminist exhibition: Earth Love: Intended Chiefly for Young Persons
June 7, 2026By: Maya Barillas Mohan, Staff Writer On May 28, a curated tour and a literary exhibition opened up on the third floor of WAC Bennett Library. The Peak reached out to those responsible for a collaborative interview over email with…
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SFYou: Cedric and Savar, creators of Unify Social
May 31, 2026By: Tomos Land, Staff Writer Every year, hundreds of thousands of people move to Canada, but oftentimes getting here is only half the battle. Between meeting immigration requirements, learning a foreign language, and finding bearings in a new city, being…
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SFUnexplained: Disappearing service tickets
February 16, 2026By: Sasha Rubick, SFU Student You can’t throw a rock at SFU without hitting an abandoned facilities services project. We all know that sign, posted in SFU letterhead, adhered with masking tape: “a service ticket has been submitted.” It mocks…
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Reimagining Shakespeare: The campus is but a stage
December 18, 2025By: Zainab Salam, Opinions Editor Jess: a fourth-year student, burdened by ambition and Wi-Fi issues. Advisor: a keeper of bureaucratic riddles, and a destroyer of hopes and dreams. Professor: philosopher, lecturer, and a veteran of many, endless faculty meetings. Barista:…
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SFU employee spills the tea about her embezzlement-obsessed colleague
December 8, 2025By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Investigator The following is a satirical and fictional commentary. Oh boy, do we have some juicy tea for you. Have you ever wanted to say, “Fuck the system!” and chug some milk while your boss has…
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The Steve Chronigulls
November 11, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik The Peak recently interviewed Steve C. Gull, a local screenwriter and seagull who lives in the reflecting pond. We decided to check back in with the avian creative and see how he’s been since we last spoke.…
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The Peak investigates: The SFU Pisser
November 10, 2025By: The Humour Investigator As I sat at my cubicle in The Peak office, all I could think about was what I used to be. When I was a News Writer, I investigated crime on campus . . . and…
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Timeshares for sale on Burnaby Mountain
November 8, 2025By: Mason Mattu, Timeshare scam detector and Humour Editor Somewhere in the backrooms of Maggie Benson Centre, a group of tourists has been roped into a sales presentation about timeshares at SFU. Their salesperson? Tiffannee. She’s not just hungry for…
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