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BC’s new liquor laws fail local retailers
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2038" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Thomas Williams (Flickr)[/caption] As April showers roll into Metro Vancouver, students are likely to roll out some extra cash when purchasing a six pack or a bottle of red for their end-of-term parties. The Liberal government’s initiative to increase taxes on wine and allow certain liquor retailers to move into grocery stores has local bar and liquor store owners wondering how they are going to keep their heads above water. According to Business in Vancouver, markups under the old, two-tiered tax system created a retail price for each bottle of wine, which was…
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Clan softball earn twin doubleheader victories over Crusaders
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2216" align="alignnone" width="980"] Image courtesy of SFU Athletics[/caption] On a brisk Thursday evening at SFU’s Beedie Field, the Clan women’s softball team won back-to-back games over Northwest Nazarene Crusaders in their Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) doubleheader — a…
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I found my ambition at this newspaper
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2263" align="alignright" width="400"] Photo Credit: Brandon Hillier[/caption] When I graduated high school, I wasn’t a particularly decisive person. I decided to go straight to post-secondary from high school because I didn’t know what else to do with myself. I…
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Clan track and field starts outdoor season with a bang
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_990" align="alignnone" width="2400"] Image Credit: Hamed Yaghoubi Shahir /The Peak[/caption] The Clan opened the outdoor track and field season at the UBC Open with a strong showing. A total of five athletes earned automatic invitations to the Great Northwest…
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Jamie Oliver, leave a child’s diet alone
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2043" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/caption] This Christmas I sat down, flipped on my TV, and engulfed myself in the guilty delights of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Comfort Food series. As a trickle of drool anointed my…
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SFU’s top athletes honoured at the Clan awards banquet
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2194" align="alignnone" width="980"] The women’s Athlete of the Year went to two athletes: track and fielder Lindsey Butterworth and women’s basketball star Erin Chambers. Photo courtesy of SFU Athletics[/caption] The Clan Athletic Awards Banquet, held last Wednesday at the…
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Guns kill people but gun control saves lives
April 7, 2015[caption id="attachment_2055" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Earlier this week, the Canadian Supreme Court decided in a 5–4 decision that the Federal government is entitled to destroy all of Quebec’s data from the long-gun registry (LGR), which was…
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Patches of black mould petition against university building closure
April 6, 2015[caption id="attachment_2121" align="alignright" width="300"] Illustration by Rebekah Chotem[/caption] Over 50 patches of potentially hazardous black mould gathered on Burnaby campus last Thursday to raise awareness about the university’s decision to shut down Louis Riel House. When the building closes at…
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SFU football athletes participate at CFL regional combine
March 30, 2015[caption id="attachment_1977" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Wide receiver Bibake Uppal notched a second-place finish in the three-cone drill. Photo courtesy of Surrey Now[/caption] Last Monday, six Clan football graduates headed to Edmonton to participate in the CFL regional combine. The players hoped…
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Meet the Clan: Adrian VanderHelm
March 30, 2015[caption id="attachment_1964" align="alignnone" width="1313"] Only a freshman, Adrian VanderHelm is the first member of the men’s swim team to qualify for the National Championship. Image Credit: Brandon Hillier /The Peak[/caption] Adrian VanderHelm is the first member of SFU’s men’s swim…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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