Petra Chase

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Arts and Culture Editor at The Peak

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Resisting and rebuilding, one delicious Burmese Plate at a time

1 month ago | the-peak.ca | Petra Chase

By: Petra Chase, Peak AssociateContent warning: brief mention of genocide. In Burma, April is a time for celebrating a new year. During the five-day festival called Thingyan, people pour and throw water on each other on every street, a symbolic cleansing of past sins. , the national flower, blooms under the summer sun, framing faces and illuminating scenes with golden yellow.
Letter from the editor: We’ve rebranded

2 months ago | the-peak.ca | Petra Chase

By: Petra Chase, Editor-in-Chief Dear SFU community,It’s time to say farewell to The Peak and welcome our board game magazine. The Pawn is now your weekly source for the latest news, trends, and tips in tabletop gaming on our beloved mountain (excluding table tennis, which has its own weekly campus magazine). Our new name is an homage to the fact that we needed to pawn off multiple kitchen appliances (sorry team, no more coffeemaker) to raise money for this venture.
Postcards from Congo is an artful graphic history

Feb 27, 2025 | the-peak.ca | Petra Chase

By: Petra Chase, Editor-in-ChiefContent warning: brief mentions of slavery, child soldiers, and war. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the second largest country in Africa, yet its rich, enduring history is often overlooked. Postcards from Congo is an easy-to-digest graphic novel and entry point into everything from the Bantu migrations of 500 BCE to the COVID-19 pandemic. It exposes the violent legacy of colonialism, which persists to this day.
Peakie gets sexy

Feb 13, 2025 | the-peak.ca | Petra Chase |C Icart

By: Petra Chase, Editor-in-Chief and C Icart, Humour EditorDear Peakie, Do you have the TLC people’s phone number (the network, not the girl group)? I was practicing the Megan Thee Stallion headboard challenge by myself so I’d be ready for Valentine’s Day, and what followed was actually the perfect story to reboot Sex Sent Me to the ER.
Monday music: Twee love songs

Feb 10, 2025 | the-peak.ca | Petra Chase

By: Petra Chase, Editor-in-Chief“P.U.N.K Girl” by HeavenlyTwee was originally British slang for sweet to a “nauseating” degree. Heavenly was one of the bands who emerged in the ‘80s in opposition to the “increasing harshness in the post-punk music scene” under the UK indie label Sarah Records. These disparately dainty bands reclaimed the word, defining the genre with wispy guitar, ‘50s and ‘60s nostalgia, and whimsy lyrics. Heavenly is for fans of fellow twee Sarah label-mates, The Smiths.
What Grinds Our Gears: Microwaves

Nov 15, 2024 | the-peak.ca | Petra Chase

By: Petra Chase, Editor-in-ChiefThere are a lot of reasons to appreciate the convenience of microwaves. But today I want to complain about the things no one ever talks about!I get that a cooling fan is loud but needed for the microwave to work, but why do microwaves also have to make such loud clicking noises to open and close? And why do the buttons need to be so loud? Can you imagine if every appliance in your house required multiple loud beeps for using it?
Eviction to Empowerment discusses lasting impact of student space campaigns at SFU

Oct 15, 2024 | the-peak.ca | Petra Chase

By: Petra Chase, Editor-in-ChiefOn September 18, student-run non-profit Embark Sustainability hosted a panel discussion, Eviction to Empowerment, reflecting on a not-to-be-forgotten chapter in recent history at SFU: years of organizing gave independent student societies and equity groups the space they now have in the Student Union Building (SUB).
Message from the president: An update on the official SFU mascot shortlist

Sep 26, 2024 | the-peak.ca | Petra Chase

By: Petra Chase, Editor-in-ChiefSince McFogg the Dog was let go in 2018, the Board of Directors has been hard at work deciding who will replace him as SFU’s new official mascot. Finding a mascot worthy of representing our comprehensive university is a responsibility we do not take lightly. As a result, we’ve been way too swamped at our monthly meeting to get around to the calls to divest from war contractors. We’ve only just begun talking to the TSSU about a fair contract.
What Grinds Our Gears: Unyielding bikers

Jun 17, 2024 | the-peak.ca | Petra Chase

By: Petra Chase, Editor-in-ChiefI love my bike, and I love how bike-friendly Vancouver is. From Stanley Park to Spanish Banks, we’ve got the “world’s longest uninterrupted waterfront path” available to us, with mountain views. I would have no complaints if it weren’t for the fact that CROSSWALKS MEAN NOTHING TO PEOPLE. I hate to say it, because cyclists already have a bad rep among drivers, but they can be self-righteously impatient.
An SFU background extra tell-all

Jun 12, 2024 | the-peak.ca | Petra Chase

By: Petra Chase, Editor-in-ChiefSFU students have been observing a strange phenomenon across campuses — more and more common areas filled with students just hanging out. At first, The Peak assumed it was some conspiracy. But the tips have been impossible to ignore — eyewitness accounts swearing SFU hires background actors on campus have been flooding our inboxes.