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The Central Asian Student Association organizes fundraiser drive for the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
February 28, 2023By: Aditi Dwivedi, News Writer & Karissa Ketter, News Editor The Central Asian Student Association (CASA) of SFU organized a fundraiser and donation drive for the people affected by the earthquake which struck South East Turkey and North West Syria on February 6, 2023. More than 40 million people are suffering from the damage caused by the two earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 and 7.5. Since then, the regions of Turkey and Syria have dealt with approximately 200 aftershocks causing further destruction and an exponential increase in casualties. The affected population of northwest Syria is even more vulnerable due to the…
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SFU students organize Vancouver’s first annual International Women’s Day March
February 27, 2023By: Natalie Cooke, News Writer Editor’s note: Yasmin Vejs Simsek, who was interviewed for this piece, is a former Peak employee. Karissa Ketter, a current editor who worked on the article, is also an organizer. The Peak acknowledges and has…
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Hold music isn’t fun enough
February 21, 2023By: C Icart, Staff Writer Hear me out, we have seen a number of industries be disrupted, leading to unprecedented innovation. But there is one area where we have not seen much progress, which is a shame, and that is…
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VANDU criticizes Vancouver’s new drug policy, says it is not enough
February 21, 2023By: Aditi Dwivedi, News Writer The BC government was granted an exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act by Health Canada, to decriminalize the possession of certain illegal drugs from January 31, 2023 to January 31, 2026. The decriminalization…
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The SFU Alumni Association votes to merge with SFU
February 20, 2023By: Aditi Dwivedi, News Writer SFU’s Alumni Association held a vote on February 15 to determine the future of their organization. SFU was proposing to change the current Alumni Association from a legally separate organization, to an internal SFU entity,…
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Dr. Carman Fung discusses the transformation of tomboy identities
February 13, 2023By: C Icart, Staff Writer Dr. Carman Fung is a lecturer in the department of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at SFU. They “study the lesbian secondary gender, ‘tomboy,’ across the transnational Sinophone world encompassing contemporary China, Taiwan, and Hong…
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The SFSS Council protests gender-based violence in post-secondary education
February 7, 2023By: Aditi Dwivedi, News Writer Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual and gender-based violence. On January 25, The Peak attended the Simon Fraser Student Society’s (SFSS) bi-weekly Council meeting. The highlights from the meeting include SFSS unanimously agreeing…
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Let’s Do Breakfast brings free meals to elementary students
February 6, 2023By: Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer Editor’s Note: The article was updated to reflect there are 70 breakfast programs in Surrey, following an update from Mehra. Originally the article mistakenly noted there were only 27. A group of SFU students started…
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Diving into the importance of drug decriminalization
February 2, 2023By: C Icart, Staff Writer As of January 31, if you are 18 or older in BC, you “will now be able to possess up to a cumulative 2.5 grams of opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine, and MDMA within the province.” Instead…
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Student Updates
February 1, 2023By: Nathan T. The Koi from the AQ pond have been removed After years of entertaining graduating students during convocation and disappearing during winter, the koi fish have been sold to the SFU biological sciences department to help raise money…
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