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Winter weather worsens conditions for evicted CRAB Park residents
January 22, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer On November 7, 2024, “Vancouver’s only sanctioned [houseless] encampment” located at CRAB Park closed. The Vancouver Park Board previously sectioned off a designated area of the park for overnight sheltering. Evicted park residents who did not “transition to indoor arrangements” are permitted to temporarily shelter overnight. Throughout 2024, the Park Board conducted a “slow-moving decampment of the site,” in which over 30 residents of CRAB Park were forcibly removed, and essential supplies such as “blankets, clothing, [and] tarps” were destroyed or confiscated. At the time of eviction, seven official residents were offered “shelter previously but…
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The Conservative Party’s policy declaration is comprised of carefully constructed lies
January 20, 2025By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer Content warning: mention of abortion legislation and violence against pregnant people. It’s been over two years since Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre announced his candidacy for prime minister and stated his plans to make Canada…
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CWJ hosts rally to continue pushing for in-house food and cleaning contracts
January 20, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Content warning: mentions of racism and worker abuse. SFU has contracts with Best Service Pros and Chartwells Canada for cleaning and dining services respectively. Some groups, however, are hoping to change this. The Peak spoke with…
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The mind and body are friends, so love them both
January 17, 2025By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer Content warning: brief mentions of mental health issues. Psychotherapy and physical therapy work great on their own. But wouldn’t it be better if they were used in conjunction, and that was the norm? Many people…
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The climate’s health is ours
January 15, 2025By: Sofia Chassomeris, Opinions Editor There it is again, that funny feeling. Climate change is causing catastrophic floods, droughts, wildfires, atmospheric rivers, bomb cyclones, and extreme temperatures around the world. In seemingly unrelated news, the US just reported the country’s…
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Can’t ski, too broke
January 15, 2025By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer So, uh, I’ve been invited to go skiing. Skiing? In this economy? Right, right, I forgot that not everyone has to choose between ski boots or textbooks every time the temperature drops and it snows…
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Community Days at SFU
January 13, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer, Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture Editor Editor’s note: The Peak acknowledges that Chloë Arneson, who was interviewed, was a News Writer for The Peak in 2023. However, the writer and editor of this piece…
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SFU student verbally harassed on campus by group of teenagers
January 13, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer Content warning: details of harassment, and racist and sexist language. The safety of SFU students is being questioned after an incident of verbal harassment against an SFU student occurred on the Burnaby Campus on November…
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SFU Faculty for Palestine responds to senior administrators meeting with Israeli ambassador
January 13, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer In September 2024, a group of SFU senior administrators met with Israel’s ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed. This information was published in an open letter from SFU Faculty for Palestine (F4P) on December 10 titled…
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We are no better than our neighbours down south
January 13, 2025By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of the transatlantic slave trade, segregation, anti-Indigenous violence, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. There’s a tendency to compare Canada and the US on the issue of police brutality, and…
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