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Non-profit proposes wildlife feeding bylaw for the City of Burnaby
November 11, 2025A new proposal has emerged calling on the City of Burnaby to pass a bylaw deterring the public from feeding wildlife. The movement is spearheaded by The Fur-Bearers, a Canadian charity that aims to advance education and uphold laws around the welfare of animals in both urban and rural environments. SFU worked in partnership with the organization to curb the issue on the Burnaby campus, and they have written a letter of support for the proposal. Although the provincial Wildlife Act criminalizes the feeding of species such as cougars, bears, coyotes, and wolves, it does not include provisions for other…
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Stanley Park conservationists raise questions over the chopping of old-growth tree
November 11, 2025In early September, a 400-year-old Douglas fir tree was found cut down in Stanley Park. The tree, measuring 38 meters tall and 30 centimetres wide, caused “significant damage to an adjacent riparian area” when it was chopped down. The Stanley…
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Nepal’s Gen Z protests have led to an uncertain political transformation
November 11, 2025On September 4, the government of Nepal, headed by then-prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli, banned 26 social media platforms from being accessed within the country. The government introduced the ban for platforms that did not register themselves with the…
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SFU cleaning worker dies during shift, amplifying long-standing calls to improve working conditions
November 10, 2025Since 2020, Contract Worker Justice (CWJ) @SFU has been leading the push for better working conditions at the university. At the heart of the coalition’s rallies, events, and research is a demand that SFU directly employ its cleaning staff, rather…
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Activists discuss the intersection between Palestinian liberation and disability justice
November 10, 2025Content warning: mentions of genocide, forced sterilization, and embodied and psychological trauma. On September 12 at the Harbour Centre, the Disability Justice Network of BC and the SFU Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS) hosted a panel of five speakers…
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Historic floods devastate communities in Punjab
November 9, 2025Content warning: mention of suicides. The Indian state of Punjab has been facing severe flooding, the worst since 1988, due to intense monsoon rainfall. As of late June, an estimated 1,900 villages and 400,000 acres of farmland are submerged, and…
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SFU study finds that street sweeps reinforce systemic harm
November 9, 2025A study conducted between 2021 and 2023 by SFU found that street sweeps by the City of Vancouver lead to higher rates of violence, disrupted access to services, and overdose risk. Street sweeps involve police officers and city workers clearing…
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BC Supreme Court ruling grants Quw’utsun Nation Aboriginal title over lands
November 8, 2025The Cowichan Tribes v. Canada trial spanned 513 days from 2019 to 2023, making it the longest trial in Canadian history. On August 7 of this year, BC Supreme Court judge Barbara Young ruled that the Quw’utsun (Cowichan Tribes) hold…
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What does Burnaby city council’s new motion mean?
November 8, 2025On August 26, the Burnaby mayor, councillors, and residents filed into city hall and found their seats, a regular biweekly occurrence. Soon after calling the meeting to order, mayor Mike Hurley turned the mic over to councillor Alison Gu to…
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Pushing for a national N95 masking standard
November 8, 2025On June 20, the Canadian Standards Association, also known as the CSA Group, released a new draft version of CSA standard Z94.4, which was open to public consultation until August 19. It sets to regulate workplace standards around “the selection,…
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