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How the Red Leafs fared to start 2025
March 24, 2025By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer Women’s basketball Despite having an 8–3 record ahead of the new year, the Red Leafs women’s basketball team did not carry the same success into 2025. Once the calendar switched, the team had a record of 6–10, ending the season with a 7–11 Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) record and a 14–13 record overall. The team missed the GNAC Championship tournament for the first time since the 2011–12 season. They will also lose their highest scorer, senior Sophia Wisotzki, who not only led the conference in scoring this season with 666 points, but is also…
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Decriminalization alone will never be enough
March 24, 2025By: Nolan Steuart, SFU Student If you truly care about the betterment of society and saving lives, then you’ll agree BC’s adjustment to their previous drug decriminalization program was a step backward. In May 2024, the provincial government made changes…
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Students raise concerns over fairness of SFSS elections voting system
March 24, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer and Petra Chase, Editor-in-Chief From February 27 to 28, SFU undergraduate students voted in the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) election. On the ballot were SFSS executive position candidates and fee increase motions. The results…
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Non-violent and non-physical forms of protests
March 20, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer Gwangju, Tiananmen, Sidi Bouzid, Yangon, Bangkok, and Kyiv — these are just some places that have exemplified the efforts of ordinary people in their fight against authoritarian governments. In protests like these, citizens face…
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Stop littering campus spaces
March 20, 2025By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff writer Look, we can all joke about the fact that the SFU campus may literally be one of the most damaged and maintenance-prone places, with boarded doors and safety tape galore. But, to some degree, the…
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The Peak investigates: Maple Syrup Gate
March 20, 2025By: Mason Mattu, Investigative Journalist As an investigative journalist with The Peak, I have taken it upon myself to investigate the most harrowing and shocking secrets hiding behind the asbestos-filled halls of SFU. Let me warn you, it isn’t pretty.…
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The Fall Kickoff wasn’t much to rave about
March 20, 2025By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer and Michelle Young, Copy Editor Before the beginning of the 2024 fall semester, I saw a lot of promotion for an event called “Fall Kickoff.” The promotional material seemed to be advertising the fact that…
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Canada’s 2025 Express Entry system updates stall the government from solving its own problems
March 18, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer The government of Canada is no stranger to using immigration to exploit foreign labour and distract from the source of the country’s domestic woes. They have done it again with the new year’s changes…
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Vancouver mayor Ken Sim freezes construction of supportive housing
March 18, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Content warning: Mentions of racism, Indigenous displacement, and substance use. On February 26, Vancouver City Council voted “yes” on mayor Ken Sim’s motion to freeze the construction of new supportive housing units in the city.…
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Leaked audio files reveal controversial comments by an SFU lecturer last semester
March 18, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer Content warning: Mentions and descriptions of anti-semitism, Islamophobia, and hate speech, mention of suicide. In a recent post published to r/simonfraser, a Redditor posted leaked audio files of SFU computer science lecturer Steven Pearce making…
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