Stew Corbett – The Aquinian Six new players will skate with the Lady Tommies this season at the LBR. The team hopes to build on the success of last season, where they finished third with a 14-5-5 record, including an impressive 8-1-4 clip after Christmas. The new players will help fill the holes up front [...]
Continue reading …Today I would like to talk about a few things: Graydon Nicholas, a Maliseet from the Tobique reserve who is set to succeed Herménégilde Chiasson as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. The second is a bad transition into the sticky topic of Natives and the law. After visiting Harper’s website I learned that Nicholas was at [...]
Continue reading …So, A few weeks back there was a piece on the news (APTN National News – which from now on is what I mean when I say ‘news’) about a reserve in Manitoba that had an outbreak of H1N1. In fact, there was an H1N1 threat to many Northwestern reservations. First Nations national Chief Shawn [...]
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Hello, I love you An open letter to the owner of this car: I don’t know who you are, but I love you. We could have a spring wedding, and drive this rainbow vehicle of love across the continent, spreading smiles and joy to all we meet. We could set up a helium tank in [...]
Continue reading …Greetings readers. Today I am sitting at my laptop after a walk around town. I hadn’t taken much notice of posters around the city, usually none of them spark my interest, until today. On my walk to the grocery store I noticed a poster that declared, “No Olympics on stolen Native land!” I made a [...]
Continue reading …Everybody’s Cumin Over Samosas One of the things you will notice upon moving to Fredericton is that samosas are very readily accessible at many convenience stores and markets. Another thing you may notice is that they’re delicious. Starting next week, An Interesting Diversion presents Samosas With An Artist, where AQ blogger Megan MacKay will feed [...]
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Greetings readers, my name is George Jacques, but my friends call me PJ. I am a Mi’kmaq from Listuguj, QC, and I will be writing the Native issues blog regularly in hopes of sharing experiences and answering questions that you as readers, both Native and Non-Native, will have. Before I begin I would like to [...]
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Emily Peiffer – The Aquinian When I was little, I often daydreamed about where I would travel to when I grew up. This summer, I spent four months backpacking Uruguay and nine other Latin American countries along with it, just as I dreamed when I was little. Yet my trip this summer involved a good [...]
Continue reading …Maiko Tanabe – The Aquinian With piles of documents to fill in, courses to choose, English assessments to take, campus activities to participate in and a jetlag to deal with, some new international students already feel as tired as if they were in the middle of a semester under piles of assignments. This year, St. [...]
Continue reading …Bailey White – The Aquinian A certain degree of civility is expected with social networking. There are real people, people you know, monitoring your network activity, and a lack of etiquette online can lead to a real-life awkward situation. Facebook has mastered the art of passive-aggressive social skills. Users can discretely choose to reject friend [...]
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Once a doctor, now a student, Kayoko’s story of a new beginning Maiko Tanabe – The Aquinian Kayoko Yoshimoto sat alone in front, listening intently to the lecture and taking notes while other students sat with their friends or in the back. She first came to St. Thomas University last September. She was a new [...]
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Show highlights long, impressive career Joanne Goodall – The Aquinian To artist Anne Dunn, age doesn’t end creativity. Dunn, a Fredericton artist who just celebrated her 80th birthday, has a new show opening at Gallery 78, and said that nothing has come between her and her work. “I’ve been thinking about my past work and [...]
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