Don’t be so quick to condemn Aasia Bibi for poisoning her husband’s family
20-year-old Aasia Bibi of Pakistan was forced into an arranged marriage with Amjad Akram by her parents in early September. To get out of...
Ticket scalping ruins concerts for everyone else
A couple of weeks ago, some friends and I were attempting to buy tickets to the P!nk concert at Rogers Arena. We’d made our...
The “Good” Rap?: John Lennon
On John Lennon’s 75th birthday, the Imagine: John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert was held by Blackbird Presents and AMC to honour the late star’s...
Museums can teach us about colonialism or preach it
By: Gabrielle McLaren, Staff Writer
In 2012, the SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology accepted a collection of stone tools a farmer had gathered along...
We need to preserve both safe spaces and academic freedom
The right to free speech flirts with human progress the way peanut butter jives with strawberry jelly — they’re the “it couple.” At SFU,...
Forget ‘big’ books; read zines
You don’t know where to turn. You’ve been down the library stacks multiple times, and can’t find anything that appeals to you. Everything seems...
We need to talk: period
I'm sure we all have hazy memories of sitting in our sixth-grade biology class, starting the chapter that we'd all been sheepishly looking forward...
Mike de Jong acted in the clear on the foreign-buyers tax
By: Mark Westwood
If all goes as planned, finance minister Mike de Jong will be out of office by the end of the month. But...
What the NDP and Green parties could have in store for BC
By: Sarvin Samei
On May 29, NDP leader John Horgan and Green Party leader Andrew Weaver shocked the province by announcing a joint partnership and...
Tim Hortons’ possible closure deserves more student input
As you might’ve heard, SFU’s sparking a hardcore internal makeover of its available set of eateries. This includes potentially canning the Burnaby campus Tim...
