This is fresh from the tech guys at STU: An unauthorized email purporting to be from the St. Thomas Help Desk is making the rounds. This email asks you to reply with your date of birth username and password. It is very important you *do not* respond to this email. This is an obvious attempt [...]
Karissa Donkin – The Aquinian Dalton Camp lecture addresses changing media landscape There’s three reasons Wikimedia’s Sue Gardner believes now is the golden age of journalism. “There’s more information available to us, it is less censored and it is ridiculously cheap and easy to get,” said Gardner, who gave the seventh annual Dalton Camp Lecture [...]
Continue reading …This is the first blog since Hillary Bonnell’s body was found. She was just one of hundreds of missing Native women in Canada today. Most are never found, and some appear to have vanished out of sight. Sadly, the growing reality of the situation is that Canada does not care. Being a Native woman in [...]
Continue reading …St. Thomas University’s board of governors has named former politician Dennis Cochrane interim president and vice chancellor. Andrea Seymour, chair of the board of governors, released a statement Monday. “Mr. Cochrane comes to St. Thomas with a unique combination of experience and capabilities,” she said in the statement. “He has developed excellent relationships with the [...]
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Continue reading …Derek Montague – The Aquinian STU’s Men’s hockey team continued their slump on Friday with a 4 – 1 loss to Universite de Moncton. The Tommies have slid to 3-8-1 on the season, and are now sixth place in the AUS. Early on in the first period, it was clear that Moncton wanted to win [...]
Continue reading …Karissa Donkin – The Aquinian Shows celebrates city’s cultural capital title The Fredericton Playhouse is offering a show that will highlight some of the city’s top performers. Fredericton Onstage aims to celebrate Fredericton’s designation as a Cultural Capital of Canada in 2009. The show, which is on Nov. 27, will fuse together various aspects of [...]
Continue reading …Maiko Tanabe – The Aquinian Some will travel, some will go to their friend’s but some will stay in a residence. Ayat Abed Isaid isn’t looking forward to the Christmas break. While the majority of the student can’t wait to spend the holiday with their family and friends, Isaid, a fourth-year international student at St. [...]
Continue reading …Megan MacKay – The Aquinian Nearly 1,000 turn out to voice concern over possible sale of utility Upwards of a thousand demonstrators braved the cold to stand in front of the legislature and express their anger with the sale of NB Power to Hydro Quebec last week. The deafening cry of “It’s our power, keep [...]
Continue reading …Trevor Nichols – The Aquinian Documentary viewing Tuesday night Twenty years ago, the government of Canada made a colossal promise. On Nov. 24, 1989, the House of Commons passed a resolution promising to completely eliminate child poverty by the year 2000. Twenty years later, the number of Canadian children living in poverty has not changed. [...]
Continue reading …Dates for campus swine flu vaccination clinics have finally been announced. Clinics will go from Dec. 3 until Dec. 6 starting at 9 a.m. and running until 3 p.m. Registration for the shot is being held on those days in James Dunn Hall, while the actual clinic will be set up in the O’keefe fitness [...]
Continue reading …It’s the time of year where folks who are graduating start thinking about getting there hands on their T-ring. Not me, no sir. Upon graduation, I will walk across the stage with my “T” Brass Knuckles, because my CV will read Megan MacKay- Bad Ass. Every step in my ascension to academic greatness will be [...]
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