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A girl with blonde hair taking a selfie in front of an elevator at SFU. The elevator is covered with cardboard inside.
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#NotClueless: SFU, like, totally gave me a private jet?

Peak Web August 7, 2025

By: Katie Walkley, Peak Associate Hey Instagram fan girly pop queens! It’s your influencer queen here. You won’t believe the level of growth I’ve been on lately — both as an influencer and as a girl in the world. I’ve got lots to celebrate, which means that you have lots to read. Consider this your one nonschool book for the week! So, I was running a bit late for my GSWS tutorial. Totally not my fault, I was too busy hyping up a girl waiting for her Renaissance coffee who had clearly gone through a breakup. I can’t just walk…

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This is a photo of Kuramori Terumi speaking with some people at the front of the presentation room.
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Survivor of Nagasaki bomb speaks on nuclear weapon abolishment

Peak Web August 7, 2025

By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Writer Content warning: graphic descriptions of bodily harm, death, miscarriages, and sickness. On July 21 at the Harbour Centre, SFU International Studies hosted a lecture on building a future free of nuclear weapons. The event highlighted…

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A beautiful look over Vancouver’s waterfront. However, instead of the usual ball of Science World, it has been replaced with a . . . soccer ball?! The soccer ball reads the word “FIFA” on the top.
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Vancouver to transform Science World into giant soccer ball

Peak Web August 6, 2025

By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik The City of Vancouver has been selected to host several FIFA World Cup games next summer. Exciting, right? In preparation for the ball-tastic event, FIFA created a list of demands the city must implement as it prepares…

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This is a photo of an empty SUB hallway that features the “SFSS Admin Offices” room. Next to the room is a big bulletin board with about 30 neatly lined-up posters and a big red number 3 to indicate the level of the SUB.
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Five SFSS full-time union staff receive layoff notices

Peak Web August 6, 2025

By: Corbett Gildersleve, News Writer and Hannah Fraser, News Editor The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) has initiated staff layoffs, with five out of eight full-time union positions affected as of July 25. All the positions either support student activities…

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This is a photo of a rainbow heart on the ground.
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Corporate cuts for the Vancouver Pride Parade

Peak Web July 30, 2025

By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer This August, the Vancouver Pride Parade will look a little different. The event, hosted annually by Vancouver Pride Society, recently lost half of its corporate sponsorships for this year’s celebration. Companies like Lululemon and Walmart have…

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A girl sitting sideways, with her legs tucked underneath her. There are flowers growing out of her right abdomen. Her face is solemn. The background is green.
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Being sick shouldn’t cost this much

Peak Web July 30, 2025

By: Zainab Salam, Opinions Editor One day, two and a half years ago, I woke up with agonizing pain in my abdomen. After hours of attempting to get through it — thinking it might’ve been a muscle cramp — I…

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This is a photo of the SFU Surrey Engineering Building from the inside. There are numerous levels to the building, artificial trees, and a wide staircase in the photo.
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TSSU speaks on latest updates to IP policy

Peak Web July 29, 2025

By: Corbett Gildersleve, News Writer As recently reported by The Peak, the Senate reviewed and discussed a new draft version of its intellectual property (IP) policy solely focused on the commercialization of inventions and software. Based on community feedback, they…

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PHOTO (turned into EDIT): of someone sitting in the MBC food court (camera angle facing the restaurants) looking very constipated. In their hands should be a Robert Frost poetry book (should be available by request at the library). In front of the subject should be a prop that makes it look like they've just had some food at the caf.
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Rating MBC food choices based on how likely I am to recite Robert Frost whilst taking a shit after consumption

Peak Web July 24, 2025

By: Katie Walkley, Peak Associate This is my long-awaited and highly requested ranking of the Maggie Benston Centre Food Court choices based on how likely I am to recite Robert Frost whilst taking a shit after consumption (in order from…

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ILLUSTRATION: of Lana Del Rey's hologram (we should make it clear that it's a hologram make her body see-through if that makes sense). She should be on a stage that says 2025 SFSS Fall Kickoff. Below the stage are the backs of many students.
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Lana Del Rey’s hologram to headline Fall Kickoff

Peak Web July 24, 2025

By: Mason Mattu, Humour Editor Picture this: Lana Del Rey, singing Chemtrails Over The Country Club, frantically flying over an audience, and waving her arms like a fairy all at the same time. At first, you think, “Goddamn. What an…

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This is a photo of the side of the Shrum Science Centre Chemistry building.
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How prepared is SFU for the “Big One?”

Peak Web July 24, 2025

By: Corbett Gildersleve, News Writer The “Big One,” an earthquake “as powerful as magnitude 9.0” on the Richter scale, has been predicted to occur on the Pacific Coast and impact Metro Vancouver in the next 50–100 years. The Peak looked…

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