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A.A. Blues
Lauren Harris got drunk for the first time when she was 15 years old, like many Canadian teenagers. She went to a party in Woodstock with her cousin and tried her first several sips of alcohol. It’s...
View ArticleGovernment vows to make school transfers simple
Moving to a new school can be very stressful. Phil Belanger, Director of the New Brunswick Council of Articulations and Transfer (NBCAT), says having more information at hand will relieve some of that...
View ArticleSTUSU Briefs – Oct. 23
New campaigns in the works STUSU president Santiago Chavez announced three charity events coming to campus at Thursday’s Student Representative Council meeting. Member at large Robert McMichael has...
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STU students on an entrepreneurial adventure
(Submitted) Four St. Thomas University students are proving that you don’t need to be a business major to become an entrepreneur. The students flew to Boston last week to learn about start-up...
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Why weren’t we ready for Ebola?
(Andrea Bárcenas/AQ) The Ebola outbreak could have been prevented, said Janice Graham, a medical anthropologist. The outbreak which has been going on for months in West Africa has been on everyone’s...
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STU leadership tired of being bullied in Globe and Mail profiles
Year after year, the Globe and Mail’s Canadian University Report profile of St. Thomas University simplifies and distorts the school’s student experience. The 2015 STU profile was so misleading that...
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What Bourque’s sentence means for the future of Canadian justice
Moncton mountie murderer Justin Bourque’s sentence to 75 years in prison without parole was good news to many Canadians Friday, but St. Thomas University criminology professor Karla O’Regan said the...
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Professor says Ukranian rebels not “Moscow puppets”
The establishment of a free Ukrainian state is more complicated than the Western world acknowledges, Mikhail Molchanov told an audience of political science students Tuesday. (Andrea Bárcenas/AQ) “The...
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AIDS NB starts bi-weekly testing
AIDS New Brunswick is working with University of New Brunswick nursing students to make testing more accessible. The testing began last Wednesday and is available bi-weekly at 65 Brunswick St. between...
View ArticleNew directions for liberal arts
While newer institutions are trying to re-purpose liberal arts education for the wired world, two veteran St. Thomas University professors don’t think alternative approaches would be a good fit for...
View ArticleWhat Jian Gomeshi and Jesse Brown showed us about the Canadian media
Jian Gomeshi had a bad week. A really bad week. The floodgates opened when four women came forward with allegations of sexual violence in a Toronto Star piece last Sunday. Since then, the number of...
View ArticleSTUSU Brief – Oct. 30
Vice President of Education Sam Titus presented the union advocacy policy. The changes, created by him and his external affairs committee, was unanimously approved at the SRC meeting on Thursday. This...
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The bulk of the nation
(Andrea Bárcenas/AQ) Talking about physical health is difficult without coming across as insensitive, but with 63 per cent of New Brunswick’s adults reporting to be obese or overweight last year,...
View ArticleIt’s not easy
Nelofer Pazira walks quietly but confidently into our fourth-year journalism class. Her golden-brown hair falls just below her hips and each ear is pierced by three or four earrings. With her coloured...
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St. Thomas has high hopes for gas pump warnings
A group of four St. Thomas University students lobbied the City of Fredericton earlier this month to force gas stations to warn customers about environmental risks of fossil fuel consumption with a...
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STU alumna supporting African education
St. Thomas alumna Patricia Ellsworth is raising money to help build a school for hundreds of Zambian children who can’t access education. She and other Canadian volunteers started a non-profit...
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Human rights is a journey not a destination
Human rights in Canada and beyond has taken its place at the centre of conversation and education with the opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights which opened this September in Winnipeg. This...
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St. Thomas food bank struggling to fill shelves
With supplies at the St. Thomas food bank dwindling, the university encourages everyone to give a gift of compassion this year. A few free meals could keep some students in school. (Andrea Bárcenas/AQ)...
View ArticleConfessions and compliments website to close amid harassment inquiry
Facebook page “UNBF and STU Confessions and Compliments,” is set to shut down amid a legal inquiry spurred by alleged harassment on the page. The announcement came Wednesday night, but administrator...
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Fredericton’s Hidden Homeless
When Shyla Augustine went to the University of New Brunswick in 2009, she had no place to live. She stayed at friends’ places, slept in her car, or went back to her hometown of Elsipogtog First Nation....
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