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Recommended seating spaces at SFU
July 19, 2026By: Katie Walkley, Peak Associate Last week, world-renowned chiropractor Dr. Knot Mal-Praktis partnered with the department of kinesiology for a guest lecture titled, Lumb-ARE Ya Kidding Me? Back Health in the Era of Dank Memes. Only here for a day, she assessed the impacts of cellular devices on the spinal health of students. “These students move as if they’re aliens impersonating a chimp impersonating a human!” she said in an exclusive after-lecture interview with The Peak. She considered this to be an emergency situation and made an irresistible offer to our readers: a list of the best places to sit…
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Opinions-in-Chaos: Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?
July 19, 2026By: Petra Chase, Features Editor and Mason Mattu, Humour Editor As SFU’s independent student newspaper, The Peak is committed to highlighting the concerns of our local community. This week, our team decided to settle a decades-long rivalry between Bob and…
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A leaked conversation with SFU’s new chatbot — Cloud
July 13, 2026By: Marie Jen Galilo, Cloud Bot Server Student: Greetings, Cloud. I need your help with an urgent matter. Cloud: [Unstable connection. Reconnected] Student: I have no time for your cheap AI antics right now. I’m dealing with an urgent matter…
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I just want some flowers, please
July 5, 2026By: Mason Mattu, Humour Editor When I was in grade school, I used to do a lot of musical theatre. You may think, lots of shows means lots of flowers from your family, no? No. You’re wrong. You know the…
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I want to kick the Science World soccer ball
June 29, 2026By: Mason Mattu, Humour Editor “The next station is: Main Street-Science World. Doors will open on the right,” the SkyTrain’s voice-from-above announced as I rose from my seat. As I slid the strap of my tote bag onto my right…
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In defense of the misunderstood, overly-hated, and elegantly useful comma
June 29, 2026By: Maya Barillas Mohan, Staff Writer Dear TA, I am writing to you in response to my recent feedback, though I am also speaking in defense of myself, and other like-minded students, to advocate for elongated sentences which exceed traditional…
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Horoscopes June 15–21
June 15, 2026By: Abbey Perley, Assistant Production Editor Aries March 21–April 19 Tangerine matcha latte Aries, tangerines may be as bright as you, but the novelty is getting a little out of hand. When was the last time you even ate a…
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What your favourite film director says about you
June 15, 2026By: Your Letterboxd account Abbas Kiarostami: You have a deep appreciation for the mundane and the small beauties of life. Unfortunately you are also deeply melancholic. I’m sorry you’re going through such a difficult time — maybe you need to…
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Community members concerned about Conservative event at SFU
March 23, 2026By: Mason Mattu, Section Editor Content warning: mentions of residential school denialism, transphobia, child sexual abuse, pedophilia, and racism. Correction notice: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to an attendee of the event as a protester. On March…
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“Not at all” represented: Unhoused residents respond to Hastings decampment report
March 20, 2026Written by Hannah Fraser, News Editor In February, BC’s human rights commissioner Kasari Govender released a report on “the exclusion of media from the April 2023 Hastings decampment.” This two-day decampment was significant in scale, with 94 tents removed and…
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