For students rationalization overrides risk when it comes to texting and driving Aaron Noel knows what it’s like to lose a friend. Six months ago, Noel’s friend died in a car accident in Mirimachi. The culprit? Texting while driving. Texting and driving kills New Brunswickers every year, many of them young adults. Just three weeks [...]
Continue reading …Has campus campaigning gone to far? Last Wednesday afternoon, Greg Byrne painted the STU courtyard red. The Liberal candidate in Fredericton-Lincoln parked a classic red Chevy truck, complete with a Byrne campaign sign in the flatbed, in the middle of the courtyard and lined the trees with cardboard Liberal signs. Byrne and supporters were there [...]
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Parties promise not to reduce PSE funding in province FREDERICTON (CUP) — As political parties in New Brunswick handed down their platforms in the wake of the looming provincial election, student leaders in the province are calling on politicians to make post-secondary education a central issue. “No one is taking as strong a stance as [...]
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Harvey wants to put environment on province’s political agenda Janice Harvey sits in James Dunn Hall sipping her coffee and picking at her muffin. She’s been a professor of environmental studies at St. Thomas University since winter 2009. Now, as the candidate for the Charlotte-Campobello riding for the Green Party in the next provincial election, [...]
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Is poor leadership leading to student apathy? New Brunswick has had a good run of premiers: Louis J. Robichaud, Richard Hatfield, Frank McKenna and Bernard Lord all earned respect on the national political scene. But when Sean Thompson tuned into the provincial election debate last week, the political junkie and former STU student, did not [...]
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Moncton lawyer finds a way to reach out to young NB voters “My uncle voted, and he’s dead.” If you’ve heard this line recently, you’re certainly not alone. A video called “Y Vote NB” has gone viral on YouTube, receiving upward of 15,000 hits since the video was uploaded on Aug. 27. Inspired by the [...]
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Alyssa Mosher – The Aquinian – Acadian Bus Lines is not allowed to cut the direct round-trip route from Fredericton to Miramichi, as proposed last March. Following a hearing with the bus company two weeks ago, the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) decided the cut was not in the best interest of the [...]
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Here’s a look at what’s being discussed at the CASA Policy and Strategy conference 2010 in PEI.
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Jamie Ross – The Aquinian – Just days after about 1, 000 people turned out to the provincial legislature to protest the sale of NB Power’s generating assets to Hydro-Quebec, Premier Shawn Graham said this morning the energy deal has been cancelled. Graham said in a press release that Hydro-Quebec “asked for changes to the agreement that [...]
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Around 1, 000 people turned out Saturday at the provincial legislature to protest the sale of NB Power assets to Hydro-Quebec. Some opposed to the deal argue the government does have a mandate to sell the public utility and are calling for a referendum. The proposed deal would see most of NB Power’s generating assets [...]
Continue reading …Devanne O’Brien - The Xaverian Weekly – ANTIGONISH, N.S. (CUP) — The St. Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers voted to accept the their administration’s most recent contract offer, quashing the worries of 4,000 students who might have had to deal with a strike or lockout at the end of the winter semester. Over sixty per [...]
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Karissa Donkin – The Aquinian Deal violates UN declaration: First Nations Council The First Nations community in New Brunswick is voicing its opposition to the proposed sale of NB Power to Hydro-Québec. The Wolastoqewiyik Traditional Council of Tobic states that the deal is “illegal” because it violates articles in the United Nations Declaration on the [...]
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