Tara Nykyforiak

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Surrey more deserving of rapid transit than Tri Cities

EIC March 31, 2013

Surrey and Langley have less transit options and more bodies to move By Tara Nykyforiak From a completely practical standpoint, I believe the Evergreen Line is an unnecessary use of its projected $1.4 billion price tag. It will not provide Tri City residents with a previously unavailable route, but moreover it will not actually achieve one of its goals of uniting the Tri-Cities more strongly together. The Evergreen Line will begin at the Lougheed Town Centre station and run along Clarke Road in the Burquitlam area, where a new Burquitlam Station will be built for the line. From there, the…

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Used ebooks are taking another slice of a writer’s pie

EIC March 18, 2013

Used copies contradict the inherent value in e-books By Tara Nykyforiak On March 11, the Forbes website posted an article on the potential for a used e-book marketplace on online sites such as Amazon and Apple. If this becomes reality,…

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Applying for jobs in cyberspace is futile

EIC March 10, 2013

By Tara Nykyforiak Photos by Mark Burnham Digitized processes deal students and new graduates a losing hand If you’ve ever possessed a job within the contemporary work in dustry, you can relate to the frus trations involved with the online…

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MadHouse of punk

Peak Web February 17, 2013

Burnaby’s Music MadHouse Records is a hothouse for punk history By Tara Nykyforiak Photo courtesy of Tara Nykyforiak Underground and beside a rock-n-roll pub, Music Mad- House Records is truly a one of- a-kind record store with an attachment to…

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SFU is not supportive of students’ mental health

EIC February 3, 2013

Even with a doctor's note, you may be expected to complete your course By Tara Nykyforiak Illustration by Ben Buckley Throughout this past year of study at SFU, I have concluded our university is overall unsupportive of students dealing with…

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SFU is not supportive of students' mental health

Peak Web February 3, 2013

Even with a doctor's note, you may be expected to complete your course By Tara Nykyforiak Illustration by Ben Buckley Throughout this past year of study at SFU, I have concluded our university is overall unsupportive of students dealing with…

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Why Honey Boo Boo’s family is more functional than yours

EIC January 27, 2013

Without the Kardashian sex scandals, the Thompson-Shannon household’s focus on family values is showing us how it’s done By Tara Nykyforiak Photos by K. Babineau “Nobody can be proper and etiquettely all the time, I don’t care who you are,”…

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