traffic
AM 730 off air leaves Vancouver without a dedicated traffic broadcast
August 2, 2024By: Kaja Antic, Staff Writer “Gone!” reads the last tweet from the @AM730Traffic X account, sent at 7:39 a.m. on June 26 — before the station would quietly cease operations later that afternoon. Under the call sign CKGO, AM 730 was the only 24/7 all-traffic station in the Vancouver area. Listeners now tune into AM 730 to be redirected to AM 980, a news and talk radio station with intermittent traffic updates. Both stations are owned and operated by Corus Entertainment, which also owns Global News and other mass media assets. Corus has seen its revenue decrease recently and has…
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Stop signs are for stopping
October 10, 2023By: Kaja Antic, SFU Student As an experienced driver in Metro Vancouver, I’ve noticed an ongoing problem that threatens the safety of our roadways. It also threatens the well-being of other people. I constantly see drivers speed past the stop…
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What if . . . SFU Burnaby campus was flat
November 29, 2018Written by: Gene Cole, Opinions Editor I can’t say I’m sure how mechanically this would happen; either the campus would shrink down, or the rest of the world’s landmass would rise up. It would be a geological nightmare that would…
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Parking at SFU is the fucking worst
June 6, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap] am not the first to say that parking at SFU Burnaby is the fucking worst. Anyone who has driven to campus and tried to find a spot can attest that unless you’re here at 8:30 a.m., or after 5:30…
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Dawn of the pointless texting lanes
July 13, 2015Maybe some of your remember earlier this year when SFU released this year’s addition to its annual April Fool’s gag — a YouTube a video depicting hallway ‘traffic’ police, separating and maneuvering distracted texters through the ‘slow’ lane, while urging…
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