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Get to know your 2020 SFSS candidates – President
March 15, 2020Compiled by: Kelly Chia, Features Editor It’s election season for the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS)! The Peak has reached out to candidates to ask three questions based on their positions and compiled the results to help you navigate this election period. Voting this year will take place March 17–19 through SFU Mail. The SFSS is SFU’s student-led society, representing the entire undergraduate population of the university. Headed by 16 Board of Directors, SFSS members are elected every spring by the student body to hold a one-year term. During this term they manage day-to-day society work, manage large-scale finances, execute…
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Political Corner: The real economic threat of COVID-19 is a global lack of paid sick leave
March 14, 2020By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate As the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases surpasses 100,000, the economic impacts of the virus are becoming clearer. Worldwide markets have repeatedly dropped, suffering losses not seen since the last decade’s Great Recession, as anxiety about…
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Changes in the SFSS’ food sale policy lacked clarity and transparency
March 13, 2020By: Naomi Torres, SFU Student As a student union executive, I’m used to dealing with the day-to-day workings of SFSS policy. Recently, the SFSS sent an email to all student union executive members stating: “Effective immediately, groups will no longer be…
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Wet’suwet’en Student Walkout draws crowd of around 100 to Convocation Mall
March 9, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Students gathered in Convocation Mall on the afternoon of March 4 to listen to Indigenous speakers, singers, and drummers during a Student Walkout in support of the Wet’suwet’en nation. As the Walkout’s media advisory described, “The…
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Students block Gaglardi in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en
March 9, 2020By: Gabrielle McLaren, Editor-in-Chief Following a rally in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation at Convocation Mall, a group of Indigenous and settler students marched down Burnaby Mountain to block part of the intersection at Gaglardi Way and University Drive East.…
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SFU’s student-run Indigenous film festival Skoden aims to further crucial conversations
March 7, 2020by Kim Regala, Staff Writer Editor’s note: Kim Regala is involved in SIFF’s organization through CA 334. Here to celebrate and feature the works of Canadian-based Indigenous filmmakers is the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival (SIFF). Skoden, which is Indigenous slang…
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Rotunda groups will be offered space in the new Student Union Building
March 2, 2020Written by: Michelle Gomez, Assistant News Editor and Gurpreet Kambo, News Editor At their Wednesday, February 26 Board meeting, the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Board of Directors resolved to enter into formal agreements that offer the Rotunda groups space…
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Check out these artsy events coming to a campus near you
March 2, 2020by Kim Regala, Staff Writer This is How Distant I Am: A Workshop Interstecting the Works of Helen Cho, Theresa Hak Kyun Cha’s “Dictee,” and the Self Abolished through the Wreckage of Context Wednesday, March 4 | 6 p.m.– 8…
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Students informed of SFU community data security breach
March 2, 2020By: Gurpreet Kambo, News Editor A security breach caused SFU’s Chief Information Officer Mark Roman to send out an email to SFU students on the morning of March 2, 2020. According to the email, all SFU community members who joined…
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