small business
An alternative perspective on small businesses
May 14, 2025Small businesses contribute to local economies by offering unique products, innovations, and creating job opportunities. In Canada, they employ over five million people throughout the country and make up nearly 98% of all businesses. However, the narrative around small businesses often focuses on the owners, and ignores the employees. CEOs and small business owners have some key differences. CEOs are often chosen by a Board of Directors, which is made up of investors who oversee a company’s entire vision. Small business owners are those who create and manage a business at a smaller scale, and tend to be more “hands…
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Hidden Gems: Budget-friendly bites
March 27, 2025[caption id="attachment_131165" align="alignnone" width="696"] PHOTO: Amirul Anirban / The Peak[/caption] Frying Pan 1101 Denman St., Vancouver Open Sunday–Thursday 11:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m. and Friday–Saturday 11:30 a.m.–9:30 p.m. With a physical restaurant on Denman St. and a food truck on Burrard St.…
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Hidden Gems: Local trans-owned businesses
November 21, 2024Wednesday, November 20, is Trans Day of Remembrance: a day to “honour the memory of transgender people whose lives were lost as a result of anti-transgender violence.” Qmunity is hosting both a gathering at The Birdhouse to hold space for…
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Getting shipped away at Junction Public Market
July 16, 2024What hides among the looming towers of Vancouver’s Financial District? The Junction Public Market, that’s what! It’s not something that immediately catches your eye but the search for it is all worth it. With free entry and opening Tuesdays–Sundays (and…
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Summer fashion trends
May 26, 2023While fashion trends and fads are manufactured by fast fashion corporations to keep us buying, it can still be fun to join in on nostalgia for past eras, find second-hand dupes of popular items, and experiment with fun aesthetics. As…
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Contract Worker Justice critical of SFU’s new social procurement guide
February 7, 2022SFU has developed a new social procurement guide designed to “drive positive social change throughout their procurement activities,” according to their website. Social procurement involves SFU purchasing ethical goods and contracting services to influence the well-being of the community. “The…
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Post-COVID-19 SFU will be a truly alien world
July 6, 2020Update (5/6/2020): A previous version of this story included rumours of Club Ilia's permanent closure that have since been confirmed as false. SFU is famous in the Sci-Fi world for being the setting of several science fiction films. However, students…
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Helping our communities means buying local — especially during a pandemic
June 6, 2020Most people can probably agree that it’s been a heavy couple of months: social restrictions, event cancellations, and the overwhelming pressures that come with existing during a global pandemic. But even in these difficult times, it is important that we…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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