On Saturday, May 7, the SFSS joined hundreds of people and dozens of organisations across the Lower Mainland to “HUG” the Burnaby Mountain and stand in solidarity against the Trans Mountain pipeline Expansion (TMX) project. The pipeline has been approved by the federal government despite not obtaining Free, Prior and Informed consent from all Indigenous […]
Would you like to learn more about managing your club and the services we can offer to support you? Then make sure to sign up to attend a club executive onboarding and training session. Session availability: Tuesday, May 24th 1:00-2:30PM Friday, May 27th 11:00-12:30PM Monday, May 30th 11:00-2:30PM Thursday, June 2nd 1:00-2:30PM Thursday, June 2nd […]
Last month, the SFSS learned SFU student, Zain Haq, and SFU Health Sciences professor, Dr. Tim Takaro, were charged for allegedly breaching a court injunction for the Burnaby Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC expansion project (TMX). On February 15, 2022, Zain was jailed for 14 days upon pleading guilty and has three more court dates in […]
The relationship between the Simon Fraser Student Society and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (the Union) has been nothing short of a rollercoaster. In 2011, during collective bargaining, the former SFSS Leadership and Management chose to abruptly end negotiations by locking out Society staff (union members) for over six months. The lockout ended with the […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BURNABY, BC. DATE: April 21, 2022 CONTACT: Marie Haddad – VP Equity and Sustainability – Mediainquiries@sfss.ca The Simon Fraser Student Society Council on April 20, 2022, voted unanimously to establish an Issues Policies in support of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, the Palestinian community, and allies through IP-10 – Palestinian Liberation. Issues […]
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Palestine discussion event in advance of the vote on IP Palestinian Liberation. We want to thank all the speakers for coming and speaking at this event. Here is the event with the details of the event: https://www.facebook.com/sfss1/posts/5660842483933114 Here is the full video of the event: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I_4Rm0OqTwYIRYbN_GwrFBP9VZgWMlgv?usp=sharing Here […]
Notice of Motion from March 30th, 2022: Whereas, the SFSS creates SFSS Issues Policies on a variety of stances on social, economic, and political issues that impact our membership; Whereas, it is typical for student societies to employ Issues Policies to establish stances; Whereas on May 19th, 2021, the SFSS Council voted unanimously to condemn […]
The SFU Disability and Neurodiversity Alliance is offering free N95 masks to any SFU or FIC undergrads who identify as disabled, autistic, neurodivergent, Deaf, mad and/or as having a disability, chronic illness, long-term condition, or mental illness. To pick up a mask, visit Room 1300 at the SFU Student Union Building between 10am-5pm on Monday […]
The SFU Disability and Neurodiversity Alliance is providing food vouchers to Deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent SFU and FIC undergrads doing parallel work sessions. This is also called body doubling. During a parallel work or body doubling session, two or more people keep each other company while finishing tasks, such as homework, housework, paperwork, and self-care. […]
Whereas the Member Services and Group Policies need to be clear and outline the requirements established in the Letter of Agreement of the Constituency Groups that have letters of agreement, Whereas this would help Council and Staff understand the process under which CGs operate and outlines funding, space, staff support, and autonomous governance subject to […]