Supersize my cup
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 [...]
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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On Saturday morning, Mary-Dan Johnston was trying to figure out “the right thing to say” to the Maritime Rhodes Scholarship committee. She walked into the interview at 11:15 a.m. thinking it would be “really intense.” Johnston – who is pursuing an interdisciplinary major in globalization and justice – discovered the committee just wanted to hear [...]
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In a long line of darkened offices, only one is lit on a holiday weekend at St. Thomas University. Under that single light sits a large desk accompanying a bare bookshelf that rests against blank walls. The only objects on the desk are a pair of novels, an empty energy drink and Tim Hortons coffee with its companion, a greying man writing furiously on [...]
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The Canadian government is getting ready to spend more than $3.6 billion on a catchphrase, Memorial University professor Justin Piché said. “Getting tough on crime” is fun to say and easy to get behind, a motto that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been pushing as part of plans to build provincial super-prisons as well as [...]
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The union representing 59 workers from Acadian Lines has filed a labour complaint against the bus line. The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1229 workers, who are mechanics, bus drivers, customer service representatives and maintenance workers, could go on strike as early as Nov. 21. The membership voted 98 per cent in favour of striking [...]
Continue reading …Annual university rankings are out and St. Thomas University is scoring well on class size and campus atmosphere and low on research opportunities, environmental commitment and course registration. The Globe and Mail compiles the grades each year through results of a survey students are asked to fill out. STU’s grades this year aren’t much different [...]
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Talks between Acadian Lines and the union representing the bus line’s drivers, maintenance workers, customer service representatives and mechanics have broken down. The 59 workers, who have been without a contract since Dec. 31, voted 98 per cent in favour of going on strike last month. They could be in legal strike position as early [...]
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I came out in the middle of debates around legalizing same-sex marriage in Canada. There were no shortage of Conservative MP’s spewing homophobic rhetoric and opposing same-sex marriage legislation. So, I found it a bit odd that a group of Conservative politicians and staffers put together an “It gets better” video a couple of weeks [...]
Continue reading …By the end of this month, Shaunessy McKay is hoping the St. Thomas University community will have a better understanding of native land issues. November is Native Awareness Days at STU and McKay, the native student council’s president, has designed a series of events centred around land. Called “Our home on native land,” the events include [...]
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Thirty seconds can change everything. Over time, Dianne Sheehan has pieced together what happened to her son Nick before he fell to his death from a residence window at St. Francis Xavier University. She knows it was shortly after 9 p.m. on March 8, 2009 when he fell. She remembers, three hours later, receiving the [...]
Continue reading …Acadian Lines could go on strike after Nov. 21. The bus line’s drivers, maintenance workers, customer services representatives and mechanics have been without a contract since Dec. 31. Last week, 98 per cent of the workers – who are members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1229 in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island – [...]
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