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Palestinian Liberation referendum passes
March 26, 2024By: Olivia Sherman, News Writer Editor’s note: Chloë Arneson, a former news writer, was interviewed for this article. The Peak acknowledges this and has taken steps to prevent conflicts of interest or potential bias from influencing the article. On February 26, the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) held an election for its incoming student representatives. The election included a referendum to include the support for Palestinian liberation as the 10th of the SFSS Issues Policies (IP). The policy states support on a Council level for this cause. The adoption of this policy reached 1,801 votes in favour, and 442 against.…
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SFSS executive election candidates
February 27, 2024By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer The 2024/25 SFSS executive committee elections vote is taking place from February 26–29. All undergraduate students are encouraged to vote via a portal that will be sent to their SFU email. A total of 30…
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TSSU holds vote to unionize research assistants
September 5, 2023By: Olivia Sherman, News Writer One of the initiatives the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) has been campaigning for is unionizing SFU’s research assistants (RA). The SFU administration claims RAs are not considered employees, and are therefore unable to unionize.…
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SFSS discusses the health and dental care referendum vote
November 15, 2022Editor’s Note: The article was updated on November 17, to state Baran attended the Alliance of BC Students instead of the BC Federation of Students Lobby Days. Additionally, it was updated to note the referendum required a majority vote, not…
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Strategic voting is an outdated way to use your vote
September 14, 2021By Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Strategic voting is what happens when people vote to prevent parties they don’t want elected coming into power, rather than voting by preference. Brock University labour studies professor Larry Savage wrote, “For many anti-Conservative voters…
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We need to increase youth voter turnout
September 10, 2021By Charlene Aviles, Staff Writer The upcoming 2021 Canadian federal election has a five week campaign period. During those five weeks, political parties are attempting to persuade voters to support them, but the greater underlying issue is convincing young voters…
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Early federal election called for end of September
September 7, 2021By: Karissa Ketter, News Writer Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called an early federal election for September 20, 2021. This creates one of the shortest election campaigns of 36 days. The last federal election was two years prior. The voter turnout…
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A minimum voter threshold for SFSS elections should be required
March 15, 2021by Gurleen Aujla, Peak Associate Another round of SFSS elections is complete, and I congratulate all of the successful candidates, but something about the results isn’t right. The 2021 election results had an average of 891 total votes per position,…
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Why voting in the 2021 SFSS executive committee election is important
February 14, 2021by Madeleine Chan, Opinions Editor Last Fall’s Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) annual general meeting saw over 600 students in attendance — one of the largest turnouts since the fervoured attendance of the 2018 impeachment. It seems like students want…
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Brexit is the product of personality politics
July 1, 2016[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s a former resident of Britain, my mother spent most of June 24 on the phone with her friends and relatives who still live in England, consoling them on what they felt was a severe injustice to their nation. The…
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