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This is a photo of the entrance of Burnaby City Hall. The shot shows the part of the building that says “City Hall,” the entrance’s double doors, and a tree to the left of the entrance.
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What does Burnaby city council’s new motion mean?

Peak Web November 8, 2025

By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer On August 26, the Burnaby mayor, councillors, and residents filed into city hall and found their seats, a regular biweekly occurrence. Soon after calling the meeting to order, mayor Mike Hurley turned the mic over to councillor Alison Gu to introduce a motion titled “Advocating for Canada’s Role: Peace for the Palestinian People.”  Gu called on the mayor to send a letter to the Canadian government “advocating for the establishment of a full two-way arms embargo to end both the export and import of all military goods between Canada and Israel, and for the transformation…

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This is a photo of a woman wearing rubber gloves, a hairnet, protective eyewear, an N95 mask, and protective clothing while sitting at a desk with a pen and paper. She is looking over to the left, and another woman is also up close to the right of the photograph, thinking.
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Pushing for a national N95 masking standard

Peak Web November 8, 2025

By: Niveja Assalaarachchi, News Writer On June 20, the Canadian Standards Association, also known as the CSA Group, released a new draft version of CSA standard Z94.4, which was open to public consultation until August 19. It sets to regulate…

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Welcome back to SFU (you’ll never leave) bingo

Peak Web November 8, 2025

By: Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer The rules are simple. Every time you see something on this chart during the first week of classes, mark it off! If you get a blackout, you win! And if you win, you get a…

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TransLink’s new service expansion boosts bus connectivity to SFU

Peak Web November 8, 2025

By: Niveja Assalaarachchi, News Writer On August 18, TransLink announced its latest round of service adjustments for fall 2025. As of September 1, bus service was increased for 53 routes throughout Metro Vancouver. These adjustments were made possible by TransLink’s…

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This is a photo of all three candidates’ headshots side-by-side. From left to right: Bremner-Akins has short blonde hair, wears square glasses, and a blazer with a blue button up shirt; Kerr has short, dark brown hair, wears rounded glasses, and has a blue button-up shirt on with a thin, light green puffer jacket on; and Lowan has medium-length dark brown curly hair, long circular earrings, and a button up short sleeve shirt. All three photos are green and/or have nature in the background.
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Meet the BC Green Party leadership candidates

Peak Web November 8, 2025

By:  Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer The BC Greens are slated to elect new leadership this month. After losing her seat in the provincial election in October 2024, former party head Sonia Furstenau stepped down in January 2025. Now, three candidates…

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Lorena Alvarado explores memory in Lost Chapters

copy August 29, 2025

By: Michelle Young, Co-Editor-in-Chief Lost Chapters (or Los capítulos perdidos) is a quiet and tender documentary/fiction hybrid set in Caracas, Venezuela. The film follows Ena, who is searching for “forgotten writer” Rafael Bolívar Coronado across the city. Lost Chapters will…

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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…

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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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