LeBlanc case could cast “libel chill”
How a criminal libel case against a controversial Fredericton blogger and social activist plays out could have an impact on citizen journalism throughout Canada, a St. Thomas University professor says. On Jan. 26, a Westmorland Street home was raided and computer equipment seized in relation to a criminal libel case, Sgt. Tim Durling of the [...]
Some St. Thomas University students are being introduced to a new way of learning this semester – and it’s all thanks to the touch of a button. ‘Clickers’ are remote controls that allow students to anonymously have their say in a classroom, while allowing professors to translate complicated lecture material in more digestible ways. By [...]
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Fredericton university students and professors urged the provincial government not to make cuts to post-secondary education at the budget consultation meeting last week. “The returns on education are phenomenal,” said Joey O’Kane, president of the New Brunswick Student Alliance and vice-president external of the University of New Brunswick student union. “If we want to see [...]
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Nesha Bertin has wanted to be a lawyer since she was eight years old. But her dream changed when she became pregnant at 16. “As much as I love my son, it was devastating,” she said. “I didn’t think I would go to school on scholarship, I didn’t think I would finish high school, period, [...]
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Tim Hortons has introduced a new, even bigger, 24-ounce extra large cup, which will offer even more coffee for all those coffee lovers. But not everyone at St. Thomas University is happy about the change. Because there is a new extra large, the old extra large is now just a large, the old large a [...]
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Questions about pedestrian safety at the Montgomery-Windsor street crosswalk have come to light after a woman was struck by a car earlier this month. The 26-year-old woman was hit on the busy street on Jan. 22 at about 6 p.m. by a blue or black Ford Focus. She sustained minor injuries as a result of [...]
Continue reading …Though the Occupy camp in front of city hall has been evicted, its ideas live on in a series of lectures on campus. Jim Gilbert-Walsh of St. Thomas University’s philosophy department presented his lecture The Attack of the Trolls: Occupy, Ideology and Social Media on Jan. 24. Addressing the room of about 42 people, Gilbert-Walsh [...]
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Susan Machum grew up on a farm near Oak Point, N.B., one she felt she would be happy to leave behind. And so she did, travelling, studying and researching. But the farm refused to leave Machum and with each successive experience, she found herself ever more drawn into the serious problems facing the state of [...]
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First-year student Andrew Nice doesn’t just worry about his grades — but where his next meal comes from too. “When my groceries first got drastically low, I found myself eating three peanut butter sandwiches a day and dry cereal. I started to get sick and had to get something else to eat.” Halfway through first [...]
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It isn’t just the students’ union that’s left in the dark about funding changes to post-secondary education in New Brunswick. The St. Thomas University administration also knows little about the details of the four-year funding agreement that will be part of the upcoming provincial budget expected in late March. Earlier this month, STU students’ union [...]
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If there’s anything Daniel O’Brien has learned over his career, it’s how to be diplomatic. Diplomacy has become O’Brien’s strong suit, given that wherever he goes, he seems to leave having made the organization better. During a 16-year term as president of St. Thomas University, he oversaw a massive campus expansion, adding seven new buildings [...]
Continue reading …On Jan. 18, everyone woke up to a similar sight: Some of the most popular websites had nothing on them.Wikipedia, Reddit, the Cheezburger websites, XKCD and others were all replaced with information on a bill in the American House of Representatives. The sites went black in protest of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act. The [...]
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