Top Opinions
Political Corner: Doug Ford’s Better Local Government Act harms Toronto’s upcoming election
September 27, 2018Written by: Kelly Grounds, SFU Student This past week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau disagreed and distanced himself from Ontario premier Doug Ford’s use of the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to proceed in his campaign to pass the Better Local Government Act (BLGA). The goal of this act is to shrink the city council significantly, from 44 members to just 25, in order to cut government costs and increase the speed of legislation. By using the notwithstanding clause, Ford is able to override a judge’s ruling that his act goes against the Charter. He is also…
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What If: The Tim Hortons Express returned
September 26, 2018Written by: Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor I have 10 minutes between two classes, and the chances that I will collapse into a pile of limbs, loose-leaf papers, and textbooks are worryingly high. I need a familiarly branded coffee as I…
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TransLink should be able to keep offensive ads off their vehicles
September 25, 2018Written by: Michelle Gomez, Staff Writer Unquestionably, the ongoing debate on the morality and legality of abortions has been controversial throughout its history. But most recently, news of a B.C. court overturning TransLink’s decision to deny advertising space to an…
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ICBC is unfairly milking young drivers with their high insurance rates
September 24, 2018Written by: Melissa Campos, Multimedia Assistant With living expenses at an all-time high, it’s always frustrating to see necessities increase in price. The most recent candidate for this is car insurance: the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) announced last…
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What Grinds Our Gears: WiFi Conectivity
September 23, 2018Written by: Nathaniel Tok, SFU Student As a university student, nothing sucks more than losing your Internet connection. As much as the SFU community hates Canvas and SFU Mail, we can’t even start to complain about them until the Internet…
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The inaccuracies in medical shows make for good TV, but its ability to misinform is a frustrating cost
September 21, 2018Written by: Ashley Baryer, SFU Student We live in the day and age of hypochondriacs, WebMD self-educated “doctors,” and self-diagnosis. It is no surprise that medicine-based television has skyrocketed in popularity; Grey’s Anatomy enters its fifteenth season at the end…
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What Grinds Our Gears: SFU Mail
September 20, 2018Written by: Zach Siddiqui, Copy Editor I appreciate the attempts to keep SFU platforms up-to-date and relevant, and SFU Mail is really cool in some ways, but I really don’t know why we needed it. With SFU Connect, I wasn’t…
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Political Corner: Sweden’s election is making the country look eerily familiar to political climates elsewhere in the world
September 19, 2018Written by: Kelly Grounds, SFU Student Sweden held their national elections on Sunday. Early exit polls from the election are showing strong gains for the Sweden Democrats — a nationalist party that is strongly against immigration, and partially founded by…
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What If: Office hours suddenly disappeared
September 18, 2018Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor Right out the gate, this would clear up a bunch of time out of our semester. We would no longer need to spend a large chunk of the first lecture specifying times and places…
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Meme culture around our student politics is getting in the way of taking it seriously
September 17, 2018Written by: Youeal Abera, Staff Writer In 2018, millennials have found a primary method of communication on social media can be through recurring jokes. Meme culture, the habit of conveying messages through captioned and/or edited images and jokes, is often…
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