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A large white bowl with bison bourguignon, a stew with chunks of meat, carrot, and vegetable garnish. On the side, on a plate, is a loaf of bread and carrots.
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Rooted brings Indigenous cuisine to SFU dining hall

Peak Web June 6, 2023

By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer Rooted is a new program bringing traditional Indigenous ingredients and flavours to the SFU Dining Commons. Curated in collaboration with Steph Baryluk, a Teetl’it Gwich’in chef from Teetl’it Zheh in the Northwest Territories, the menu features over 15 unique dishes with fresh BC produce and game meats. Ingredients are chosen to reflect Indigenous traditions from a light and refreshing sweetgrass-tossed spinach salad to hearty plates like elk pot pie and braised rabbit with fresh sage. Inspired by her grandmothers, Baryluk told SFU, ​“Both my parents are residential school survivors, so today, as I have the…

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Four library staff with pronounced facial expressions in a library office.
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Five series to watch based on your favourite cult classics

Peak Web June 5, 2023

By: Payal R., SFU Student If you liked Abbott Elementary (2021), you may like Shelved (2023) Where to watch: CTV  Number of seasons: 1 Genre: Comedy CTV’s Shelved is a single-camera workplace sitcom that follows a group of librarians in…

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A collage of a photo stills from each of the short films.
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SFU films to watch at the Vancouver Short Film Festival

Peak Web June 1, 2023

By: Isabella Urbani, Staff Writer Content Warning: mentions of pet death   Cathy Huynh, Sean Brennan, and Anastasia Itkina were some of the SFU film graduates selected from over 250 submissions to be featured in the 13th annual Vancouver Short Film…

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Photo of the exterior of Vancouver Public Library on Homer street on a sunny day with many pedestrians outside. The building’s architecture is a brown “rectangular box surrounded by a free-standing, elliptical, colonnaded wall.”
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Little-known library resources at your fingertips

Peak Web May 31, 2023

By: Izzy Cheung, Staff Writer Books, articles, and study spaces are the things that come to mind when saying the word “library.” However, the libraries around us have many more resources that often get buried beneath the piles of books.…

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A sculpture of a white teapot with the front half open with windows like a dollhouse with the navy polka dots on the interior wallpaper. Water is coming out of the spout like a fountain, into an orange clay dish. Leaned over above the dish, a copper sculpture is kneeling over it.
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explorASIAN gallery hopping guide

Peak Web May 23, 2023

By: Petra Chase, Arts and Culture Editor One of the best ways to reignite your sense of wonder is by visiting an art exhibit — or three. And I’ve got your next field trip covered! Last week, we toured exhibits…

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Illustration of a blue calendar, with "Need to Know, Need to Go" written on top
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Need to Know, Need to Go: May–June

Peak Web May 22, 2023

By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Arts in the Garden Where: 13 garden spaces in the North Shore When: May 27 and May 28, 12:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. What better way to spend a sunny day than at a community…

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FILM STILL: Ana and Omar walk outside of a gas station convenience store holding hands and each have a paper cup. Ana is wears a black hoodie over a red hijab and baggy pants and Omar wears a white kufi on his head with brown stripes, a black jacket, jeans, and an earth-tone T-shirt.
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Manufacturing the Threat exposes how policing upholds power in Canada

Peak Web May 15, 2023

By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Content warning: mentions of Islamophobia, colonialism, and racism. Canada’s façade of tolerance and freedom is stripped away in a new documentary called Manufacturing the Threat. It’s the first feature-length documentary that explores the…

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Image of the book cover of Obasan. The title is white in a large serif font with a red line under it and the author’s name written in a smaller font underneath. The photo behind the text is of a Japanese child looking out a train window. She is wearing a red blouse with a round white collar.
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In Case You Missed It: Obasan by Joy Kogawa

Peak Web May 12, 2023

By: Izzy Cheung, Staff Writer Content Warning: Discussions of Japanese internment camps and racism. As a student who’s taken their fair share of Communication and English courses, I’m no stranger to digging around large bodies of literature in search of…

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A photo of a coloured tattoo that flows from the back of their neck and down their spine. The tattoo is an East-Asian style charm made up of red string with tassels and beautiful floral knots. The string is tied to a jade ring, small beads, and a miniature framed photo of a tree with a branch emerging out of the photo behind a blue background.
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Questions first-time tattoo getters have

Peak Web May 11, 2023

By: Isabella Urbani, Staff Writer I didn’t like my tattoos when I first got them. A week later, I was Googling “tattoo removal near me,” and scouring Reddit to see if other people’s tattoos looked as crooked as I thought…

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A photo of Smokii illuminated by the sun in a field behind a blurred background of leafy trees. He is wearing a plaid Carhart button-up over a sweater with a white zipper. They are smiling calmly while looking into the camera.
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There Are Hierarchies of Grief honours lost loved ones

Peak Web May 8, 2023

By: Petra Chase, Arts and Culture Editor There Are Hierarchies of Grief plunges into the way grief suddenly swallows you. The five-minute short film is part of the CBC Gem series, How to Lose Everything, which features five short films…

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