Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia,Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver,respectively located in Burnaby,Surrey,and Vancouver. The 170-hectare (420-acre) main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain,located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from downtown Vancouver,was established in 1965 and comprises more than 30,000 students and 160,000 alumni. The university was created in an effort to expand higher education across Canada.
Svend Robinson is a Canadian politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2004,who represented suburban Vancouver-area constituencies of Burnaby for the New Democratic Party (NDP). He is noted as the first member of Parliament in Canadian history to come out as gay while in office. In 2004,he pled guilty to stealing an expensive ring and decided not to run in the June 2004 election. At the time,he was one of the longest-serving members in the House of Commons,having been elected and re-elected for seven consecutive terms. In the 2019 Canadian federal election,Robinson was the NDP candidate for the riding of Burnaby North-Seymour,but lost to the Liberal incumbent Terry Beech by 1,560 votes.
The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) is the students' union of Simon Fraser University in Metro Vancouver,Canada. It was founded after the opening of Simon Fraser University in 1967.
Mark Leier is a Canadian historian and,since 1994,a professor of working class and left-wing history at Simon Fraser University (SFU). From 2000 to 2010,he was the director of the Centre for Labour Studies at Simon Fraser.
Neil Robert Smith was a Scottish geographer and Marxist academic. He was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York,and winner of numerous awards,including the Globe Book Award of the Association of American Geographers.
Jim Chu,COM is a former-Chief Constable of the Vancouver Police Department (VPD). On June 21,2007,Chu was named as the successor of Chief Constable Jamie Graham. On January 23,2015,it was announced Chu was planning to retire after a 36-year career with Vancouver Police and he did officially do so on May 6,2015,upon the swearing-in of his successor,Adam Palmer.
Brandt Channing Louie is a Canadian accountant and businessman. He is the president and CEO of H.Y. Louie Co. Limited,and Chairman of London Drugs Limited.
H. Michael Stevenson is President Emeritus and Vice-Chancellor of Simon Fraser University. He retired on August 31,2010,and was succeeded by Andrew Petter on September 1,2010. Stevenson's appointment as President of Simon Fraser University spanned a decade,the longest term of any president in the history of the university.
The gentrification of Vancouver,Canada,has been the subject of debate between those who wish to promote gentrification and those who do not.
David Frederick Ley is a geographer and a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia. Ley was born in Swansea,Wales,earned his B.A. at Oxford University,and his M.S. and Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University.
Anne Giardini,,,,is a Canadian business executive,journalist,lawyer and writer. She is the oldest daughter of late Canadian novelist Carol Shields. Giardini is licensed to practice law in British Columbia. As a journalist,Giardini has contributed to the National Post as a columnist. She lives in Vancouver,British Columbia with her husband of more than 30 years. They have three grown children. She has written two novels,The Sad Truth about Happiness (2005) and Advice for Italian Boys (2009),both published by HarperCollins. Giardini and her son,Nicholas Giardini,edited Startle and Illuminate,a book of Carol Shields' thoughts and advice on writing. Giardini served as the 11th chancellor of Simon Fraser University from 2014 to 2020.
Terry J. Beech is a Canadian businessman and politician who has served as Member of Parliament for the federal electoral district of Burnaby North—Seymour in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. Beech serves as minister for the newly created portfolio of citizen services since 2023. Prior,he served as Parliamentary Secretary to a number of Liberal cabinet ministers,including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland from 2021 to 2023.
Yuezhi Zhao is a Canadian sociologist. She is a Canada Research Chair in Communication and Media Studies and the founder of the Global Media Monitoring Laboratory at Simon Fraser University (SFU). Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relationship between communication and policy in US-China relations,which she regularly publishes research in both English and Chinese,and she is a noted commentator on the policies pursued by the People's Republic of China.
Cecily Nicholson is a Canadian poet,arts administrator,independent curator,and activist. Originally from Ontario,she is now based in British Columbia. As a writer and a poet,Nicholson has published collections of poetry,contributed to collected literary works,presented public lectures and readings,and collaborated with numerous community organizations. As an arts administrator,she has worked at the Surrey Art Gallery in Surrey,British Columbia,and the artist-run centre Gallery Gachet in Vancouver.
Tania Marjorie Bubela is a professor and dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.
Thelma Finlayson was a Canadian entomologist. She was one of the first female scientists to work at a federal government's research branch and was Simon Fraser University's first professor emerita upon her retirement in 1979.
Barbara Joyce Rae was a Canadian businesswoman. She was the first female chancellor of Simon Fraser University (SFU) and former CEO of Office Assistance.
Patricia May Mooney is a Professor Emerita of Physics at Simon Fraser University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,Materials Research Society,the American Association for the Advancement of Science,and the American Physical Society.
Marianne Boelscher Ignace is a Canadian linguist and anthropologist. Married into the Shuswap people,she is a Full professor in the departments of Linguistics and Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University (SFU),and Director of SFU's Indigenous Languages Program and First Nations Language Centre. In 2020,Ignace was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her work in revitalizing and preserving indigenous languages.
Terry Allan Simmons was a Canadian-American lawyer and cultural geographer,and the founder of the British Columbia Sierra Club. In this role,he participated in the Don't Make A Wave Committee,understood as the origin of the environmental organization Greenpeace.
