Winona Young

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A crash course on renters’ rights for students

Peak Web March 26, 2018

By Winona Young, Peak Associate  If it is your first time renting solo on an apartment, suite, etc., and landlords are going to hope and pray that you are a stumbling and clueless virgin when it comes to your rights as a renter. A study from our very own SFU has actually shown that renter anxiety is on the rise in Vancouver . . . Luckily, The Peak has helped compile a list of rights that you ought to know as a renter so that you may survive in the jungle that is the BC housing market and can keep…

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Safer sex is sexy sex

Peak Web February 5, 2018

Written and photographed by Winona Young  Whether you’re short on cash and condoms or in a sex-health conundrum, students need to look no further than SFU’s resource centres for all of the above and more. So save the frantic Google…

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Long story short: a dick pic would’ve been better

Peak Web January 24, 2018

By: Winona Young  I’ve received a lot of horrible texts from dates. Some have been an awkward, like the guy who asked me “Where have you been all my life?” when I referenced one (1) nerdy show. Some have been…

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My Friend Dahmer is a chilling, honest, but relentlessly non-romanticized portrait of a serial killer

Peak Web November 20, 2017

By: Winona Young My Friend Dahmer is the adaptation of the same-titled graphic novel by Derf Backderf. The film depicts the true events of the high school years of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.      It begins when a…

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The Vancouver International Film Festival in review

Peak Web November 4, 2017

By: Tessa Perkins and Winona Young Sweet Virginia – directed by Jamie M. Dagg Three men play Texas Hold ‘em in a bar after hours. A stone-faced man sits at a booth and demands the early bird special after being told that…

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Album reviews

Peak Web August 9, 2017

By: Neil MacAlister and Winona Young Lust For Life by Lana Del Rey In 2012, Born to Die introduced the world to Lana Del Rey, an artist who embraced nostalgia as much as innovation, who mixed small-town Americana with Hollywood…

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