Former STU president tasked with salvaging art college
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 [...]
With no end in sight to the Acadian Lines bus lockout, alternatives to the Orleans Express-owned service are starting to pop up for students. Mechanics, maintenance workers, customer service representatives and drivers of the bus line in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1229, were locked out on Dec. [...]
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Students will have to wait for a “budget day bomb” to find out about changes to post-secondary education funding, St. Thomas University students’ union president Mark Livingstone said. Livingstone attended a meeting last Friday with officials from the New Brunswick department of post-secondary education, training, and labour to discuss changes to funding and student financial [...]
Continue reading …The St. Thomas University students’ union has chartered a bus to bring students back to campus as the second month of the Acadian Lines lockout begins. A 32-seat bus has been booked leaving Amherst on Sunday. The bus will stop in Moncton to pick up more students before continuing to Fredericton. The service [...]
Continue reading …STUSU to charter bus to Moncton, Nova Scotia, following Acadian Lines lockout
December 15, 2011 2 CommentsIf you live in Moncton or Nova Scotia, the St. Thomas University students’ union can help you get home for the holidays. The STUSU has chartered a Trius bus to travel to Moncton on Sunday, leaving the Vanier Hall parking lot at 11 a.m. From there, it will stop in Amherst in time for students [...]
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After almost a year without a contract and weeks of disagreements, Acadian Lines will lock out its workers as of 6:30 a.m. this Friday. Eighty-eight per cent of the union’s membership voted against the newest offer from the bus line. “It was an insulting offer that was obviously cobbled together quickly,” union president Glen Carr said in a [...]
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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 [...]
Continue reading …Fourth-year St. Thomas University student Mary-Dan Johnston has won the Rhodes Scholarship. The scholarship is valued at approximately $100,000 and pays for a post-graduate degree at Oxford University. The 22-year-old interdisciplinary student from Halifax, Nova Scotia was one of about 50 Maritime applicants who applied, and 11 who were interviewed in Charlottetown, P.E.I. this weekend. [...]
Continue reading …Labour Minister Lisa Raitt is urging Acadian Lines and its workers to come together to reach an agreement. Mechanics, maintenance workers, drivers and customer service representatives in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island gave their 72-hour notice to strike today. Ashley Kelahear, press secretary to the minister, said Raitt is disappointed the two sides haven’t been [...]
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Last month, Hampton councillors voted against seismic testing within town boundaries. Hours before, more than 70 citizens had peacefully protested in front of the town hall, showing they were ready to stand their ground. The message wasn’t lost, not on councillors who passed the unanimous vote, nor on the two companies in question - Seismotion Inc. and Windsor Energy Inc. A lot of [...]
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Deandra Doyle will never forget when a plate of nachos ruined her day. “I had a customer yell at me full volume in front of the whole restaurant and it just absolutely mortified me and in the end, it wasn’t my mistake, but you’re the face that people see when there’s something wrong with their [...]
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New Brunswick’s Finance Minister Blaine Higgs sits down with The Aquinian to talk about university funding, student retention – and why you should stay in New Brunswick. AQ: New Brunswick has a long way to go before it has battled its debt and deficit. What advice do you have for students who are finishing school [...]
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