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Free menstrual products on campus

SFSS bylaws lack clarity

Latin community on campus

The life of SFU’s showgirl

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NEWS

November 3, 2025

DIVESTMENT AND SUPPORT

This moral clarity must be translated into action right here at home.

G E RAR D O OTE RO P R O F ES S O R E M E R IT U S , S C H O O L FO R IN T E R N AT IO N A L ST U D IES

TUITION PAYMENT STOPPAGE

I just don’t know how anyone else in my situation would deal with this.

ALEXAND R I A RO C H E R - LI G H T · S F U ST U D E N T

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NEWS

News Editor Hannah Fraser · News Writers Niveja Assalaarachchi and Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik · news@the-peak.ca

LOCAL ACTIVISM

Solidarity is not symbolic — it is an active refusal of oppression.

M AR I E H AD DAD D IR E CTO R O F E N GAG E M E N T AT E M BA R K S U STA IN A B ILIT Y

MENSTRUAL EQUITY

I really want to congratulate the student body on raising this concern and calling the university to action. They did it in a really collaborative and supportive way.

K RYSTAL NE S S AS S O C IAT E D IR E CTO R , BU ILD IN G S A N D G R O U N DS AT S F U FAC ILIT IES

OPINIONS

November 3, 2025

SONIC REBELLION

To love Latin music, then, is not just to move with its rhythms in our dance clubs but to honour its deep roots of rebellion.

SPOOKY SEASON

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OPINIONS

REQUIRED BYLAWS CLARIFICATIONS

Opinions Editor Zainab Salam · opinions@the-peak.ca

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Arts & Culture Editor Phone Min Thant · arts@the-peak.ca

ARTS & CULTURE

WALK TOGETHER FOR RECONCILIATION

I can’t do everything, but I can do something, and if everybody does something, then we have a community of people taking action, and we get to where we need to go. It’s not a sprint.

DAV I D A. RO BE RT S O N AU T H O R O F 52 WAYS TO RECONCILE

ARTISTIC VISIBILITY

These images clearly portray adaptation, despair, persistence, and quiet revolt of these participants.

ARTS & CULTURE

November 3, 2025

INDIGENOUS THEATRE

This is important for us, because we wanted to reach audiences across the country, and knowing that similar history of Indian residential schools are still relevant.

SANTE E S M I TH · A RT IST IC D IR E CTO R O F T H E KA H A:WI DA N C E T H EAT R E

LYRICAL LOCAL

There is an undertone of acceptance and self love and finding the magic in the mess that is you. And so the album is called The Way That I Am.

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HUMOUR

Humour Editor Mason Mattu · humour@the-peak.ca

HUMOUR

November 3, 2025

THE LIFE SFU PRESIDENT [Verse 1: SFU student]

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[Chorus: Joy Johnson]

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[Bridge: SFU student]

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[Outro: Joy Johnson]

Matthew Cullings • SFU Student

ILLUSTRATION: Olivia Blackmore / The Peak

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