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October 13, 2026
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Being an accomplice, you’re working hand in hand with Indigenous people to decolonize and you’re not afraid to get your hands dirty, and stand on the front lines with them shoulder to shoulder. AARO N H E M E NS STO RY T E LLE R AT INDIGINEWS , SY ILX O KA N AGA N R E G IO N
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Many past and current dress code laws result from rising authoritarian governments with specific interpretations of Islam. But Muslims lived in these areas long before those developments.
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Sim’s “ideal” future for Vancouver continues to worsen the very structural conditions he defines as essential to understanding his history.
October 13, 2026
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Arts & Culture Editor Phone Min Thant · arts@the-peak.ca
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A Tehran So Quiet displays a variety of ways diaspora fiction can look, always cropping in on the necessity of human connection, both in familiar and unfamiliar lands.
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How do we step out of repetitive survival patterns and claim our own place at the table, when the biggest obstacle is the loop inside our own heads?
October 13, 2026
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HOW AND WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO VOLLEYBALL?
DO YOU HAVE ANY PRE-GAME OR POST-GAME RITUALS?
WHAT IS THE MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT FOR YOU SO FAR AS A PLAYER ON THE SFU’S WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM?
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST UNDERRATED THING ABOUT VOLLEYBALL?
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