Hockey dreams Brandon Gormley’s dreams were built on a pond in his hometown of Murray River, P.E.I. Every day after school, Gormley gathered up some friends to play Canada’s game until it was time to go home. One day, Gormley and his friends were playing pickup when Charlottetown-native Danny Stewart joined them. At the time, [...]
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A top men’s hockey recruit in the Canadian Interuniversity Sports league is now feted on campus tours by as many as 10 different schools, offered an athletic scholarship, with some prospects even turning down NHL or AHL contracts to play. So how can a small liberal arts school like St. Thomas University stand out in [...]
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Most of us have been injured at some point in our lives, but we can easily cope with a scratch or a bruise. But what about twisted or sprained ankles, concussions or broken bones? No matter who you are or how active you are, injuries are horrible. I’ve talked about avoiding injuries in some of [...]
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Only a week after capturing their second-straight Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association championship, the women’s Tommies travelled to Lethbridge, Alta. for this year’s Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association national tournament. Of the eight teams in the tournament, the St. Thomas University team faced the longest leg, playing in the tournament’s opening game on Thursday. But the travel [...]
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After sending the final game of the Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association championship into overtime, where the Tommies beat Mount Saint Vincent, Corey Delong is bringing home another piece of hardware. Delong and his teammates won the bronze medal game at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Championships this past weekend in Truro, N.S, beating [...]
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St. Thomas University students’ union appellate board has unofficially rejected appeals by both Elizabeth Strange and Frank Jr. Molley. The results will be official once the board sends out emails to the appellants. Decisions of the board are final. Strange, a candidate for vice-president education, did not want to comment immediately after the decision. “I’m [...]
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A week ago, you probably didn’t know who Joseph Kony was. You didn’t know anything about what he was doing or where he was from. But social media changed that. In the 72 hours after a 30-minute video was posted on the Internet, nearly 40 million people watched. If you haven’t heard already, Joseph Kony [...]
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The timing couldn’t have been better for Brian Burke. Just as his Maple Stinks continued clogging up the NHL toilet and a Don Cherry bomb was dropped on him on Coach’s Corner, Burke and his son, Patrick – a scout with the Flyers – released a powerful public service announcement, which was first shown on [...]
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It’s a lifelong dream of Tyler Lombard’s to have a deal with a major record label. This week, he’ll find out if he’s one step closer to that dream. Lombard, a member of Fredericton electronic trio The Arka Teks, said the band will likely know by the end of this week whether they’ll move one [...]
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Elizabeth Strange is appealing the results of the St. Thomas University students’ union election and wants a by-election. She was a candidate for vice-president education during the vote on Tuesday and Wednesday last week. Strange said Alex Driscoll, who defeated her by 99 votes or almost 18 per cent, was standing near polling stations “excessively.” [...]
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TORONTO (CUP) — The federal government is closing job centres that help students find seasonal summer employment, shifting its services online to save $6.5 million a year. The offices, called Service Canada Centres for Youth, were open temporarily from May from August to offer job-finding advice and career-building tips to youth aged 15-24. “The number [...]
Continue reading …The election results, where only 23.7 per cent of students voted, as announced by STUSU chief returning officer Sarah Bulman at the Social Club are as follows: President of the Students’ Union Emily Sheen 251 votes John Hoben 275 votes Vice President Administration Megan Aiken 256 Thomas Findlay Mckay-Boyce 284 Vice President Education Alex Driscoll [...]
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