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Illustration of a student looking innocent and hopeful as they witness the first snow fall of the season
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Vancouverite’s totes necessary guide to preparing for snow

Peak Web November 28, 2022

By: C Icart, Staff Writer Have you seen the forecast? The temperature has been dropping. I’m running out of time. For what? To prepare for my favourite Vancouverite winter hobby: pretending it never snows in the Lower Mainland! Here are my steps for getting ready! It’s so exciting! Prepare my shocked face It NEVER snows. So I need to spend extra time in front of the mirror practicing my Home Alone face. I’ll need to use it when I see the forecast, and it announces snow when people tell me it will snow, and most importantly when I see the…

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Illustrations of the covers of Glee, The Legend of Zelda: Animated Series, Mamma Mia, and The Fault in Our Stars
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The Peak’s special curriculum

Peak Web November 24, 2022

By: Petra Chase, Arts and Culture Editor, Kelly Chia, Humour Editor, Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer, Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor Professors, You’ve kindly taken your time to study and deconstruct theory after theory, assigning us only the best — or most…

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What Pop-Tart flavour are you?

Peak Web November 16, 2022

By: Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer, Brainwashed by Teen Vogue If you’re anything like me, you spent many late nights as a 12-year-old flipping through pink-centric girlie tween magazines. You read about all of the latest celeb gossip and took many…

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"Student Updates" text in SFU red
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SFU Student Update

Peak Web November 8, 2022

By: Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer Key Updates SFU innovatively stands by mediocre Health and Counselling services  The location of the office being at the bottom of the Maggie Benston Centre, lack of lighting, and general difficulty in getting an appointment…

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An illustration of a girl with long flowing hair. Astrological signs and stars shine around her.
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Horoscopes: November 7–11

Peak Web November 6, 2022

By: Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer, Bitter and Critical Aries You started listening to Christmas music as soon as the clock striked midnight on November 1st. We know you do it to cope with the impending doom that comes with finals…

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A photo of a person looking longingly upwards. A thought bubble beside them shows Prozac.
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A love letter to Prozac

Peak Web November 2, 2022

By: C Icart, Staff Writer Prozac and I are high school sweethearts. I met them as I was rebounding from Zoloft — that relationship was so toxic. We’ve been on-again-off-again ever since, but I actually think we’re soulmates. I’m not…

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The United Nations has some trouble putting out fires on their Security Council

Peak Web October 30, 2022

By: Clarence Ndabahwerize, Staff Writer NEW YORK —The Dag Hammarskjöld Library at the United Nations burnt to the ground after it caught fire. Extraordinarily, no one was hurt, but the loss was immense. While observers thought some kind of jurisdictional…

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Whistler invaded by emus

Peak Web October 26, 2022

By: Clarence Ndabahwerize, Staff Writer WHISTLER — A Kiwi tourist was in for a nasty surprise when she woke up at one of Whistler’s renowned lodges and found an emu staring right at her. After screaming for 15 minutes, the…

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Illustration of two smug raccoons smiling at each other, depicting raccoon personalities Reginald the III and Stinks the Raccoon.
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Opinions in Garbage: Reginald the III and Stinks the Raccoon discuss

Peak Web October 26, 2022

By: Kelly Chia, Humour Editor and Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer The Peak has had the incredible opportunity to gather two of SFU Burnaby’s most coveted raccoon starlets: resident food critic Reginald the III himself and Stinks the Raccoon, TV personality…

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This photo is of a student who is looking at their computer screen. Their head is resting on their hand and they look sad and down.
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SFU student creates One Stop Mental Health Canada

Peak Web October 17, 2022

By: Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer One Stop Mental Health Canada is set to be introduced one province at a time within a year, starting with co-creator Chloe White and Erin Rebello’s home province, Ontario. The digital project aims to bridge…

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