Fiona Sjaus

Fiona was The Ubyssey's 2024/25 features editor and the 2023/24 culture editor for The Ubyssey's annual magazine.

Kiah, a young adult with dark hair, draws as 2D illustrations of birds fly past in the background.

I’ll be the first to say that growing old is a privilege — and an environmental liability. It’s a dark thought that I usually mull over under blankets and between bedroom walls. That was, until I caught UBC alumna Ann Marie Fleming’s sci-fi drama Can I Get a Witness? at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival.

Anita stands on a podium with a medal around her neck behind a grey backdrop.

By the time Nambuuza moved to Burnaby from Uganda at 16, she had already developed her skills in teaching coding to kids — her passion for computers was ignited at an early age and she said her mother encouraged her to turn this passion into an advocating force bigger than herself.

University students have always been at the forefront of activism, whether through protest or media coverage. But how do universities and law enforcement balance students’ right to free speech and peaceful protest while prioritizing public safety for protesters and the protested-against alike?

In 1994, Kris Mitchell of Smak, Gilles Zolty of Zolty Cracker and their respective bands got rejected from Music West. The festival was one of the loudest in Vancouver, at one point bringing together over 300 local acts.

When my mind can make out the peacock’s feathers vividly enough, the eyes almost wink, as if to acknowledge the grip that they have on the woes of maternal love.

Jazz was never meant to be monothematic — the nature of the genre is experimental and giving. In their freshman album, Raagaverse is taking advantage of this malleability by infusing classical Hindustani vocality with the improv and complexity of jazz to pave their own silky and microtonal rhythm.

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