The Peak is the independent student newspaper of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

The Peak was founded on October 6, 1965[1][2] through the merger of SFU's two original student newspapers, The Tartan and The SF View.

The business manager has historically been the most long-lived position at the paper, and is thus the repository for much of the newspaper's institutional memory.

Each editor maintained general control of their section or process, while broader decisions were made by consensus by the editorial collective as a whole.

As of September 2014, The Peak once again operates under the management of an editor-in-chief, with a hiring process used to employ section editors.

Edmonton Journal columnist Michael Hingston published a fictionalized account of his time at The Peak, titled The Dilettantes (Freehand Books).