Grant-Harvey opening delayed again
It’ll be a few more months before skates hit the ice at the new $29.5-million Grant-Harvey Centre. The new arena, soon to be home to both St. Thomas University hockey teams, is now expected to be complete in July, according to Greg Cook, Fredericton’s executive director of special capital projects. In November, city officials said [...]
Fredericton is often said to be an arts and culture hub. With live music coming and going from the bar and café scene, galleries dotting the downtown core and a large theatre community, you’d be tempted to agree that Fredericton is indeed artsy. But what about student and emerging artists? They can’t exactly hang their [...]
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It’s Friday night in Fredericton. You go out with a friend to shake off a hard week of school or work. You have drinks at home and find your way to the iRock, a popular nightclub downtown. The music blares and you’re so transported by the atmosphere, the lights, the two or three vodka limes, [...]
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Mayor Brad Woodside hopes people understand why he wasn’t around much this weekend. He blames it on his love for hockey. For the second consecutive year, the Canadian Interuniversity Sport men’s hockey championship was hosted by the University of New Brunswick right here in Fredericton. And if you were looking for the mayor, he was [...]
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It was only two weeks ago that the McGill Redmen and Western Mustangs met in the Ontario University Athletics championship game in which the Redmen won 4-1. This time though, they were playing for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport championship. Once again, the Redmen were victorious. McGill beat Western 4-3 in overtime thanks to captain Evan [...]
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Walking into Markus Pearson’s house last year was an unpleasant experience. It was dark, damp and in bad condition. The walls and floorboards were covered in mould, and cold air seeped through the old windows. The third-year St. Thomas University student and four other students were paying $1,600 a month to live in that place. [...]
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A few weeks ago, second-year St. Thomas University student Jesse Frank was walking on the corner of York and Needham Streets when he slipped and fell, hurting his ankle. “I was trying to catch the bus and then I wiped out and there was no way I was catching that bus after that, I couldn’t [...]
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Redwood Fields is saying “in with the new” by welcoming a female band member and working to refine their sound. Heather Ogilvie, the group’s bass player, is the most recent addition to the band. She is only one show deep with Redwood Fields since joining last month, but she’s had experience in the Fredericton music [...]
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Fredericton city council isn’t the old boys club you may think it is, councillor and university student Jordan Graham says. As the University of New Brunswick student, and former St. Thomas University student, nears the end of his council term, he’s learned at school and around the council table, including how to manage his two [...]
Continue reading …I wanted to take a break this week to talk to you about a little curry treat that occupies a lot of my culinary time. It is a wonderful blend of some of God’s greatest ingredients, and bears a name many seem to pronounce like they’ve had a retainer lodged down their throats. A shawarma [...]
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Electro, funk-and-dance outfit Whale Skin makes their mark on the Maritimes It was a warm night in June last year when Willow Bell, front-man of the band Whale Skin, was nervously waiting to hit the stage. It was the band’s first-ever live show and they were the headliners. Bell says Whale Skin’s first show was [...]
Continue reading …The AQ’s Liam McGuire talks about bipolar disorder and why it’s important to succumb to the help that surrounds you I felt miserable for no particular reason. I wandered around uptown Fredericton with tears in my eyes, frustrated with that particular summer day last June. My heart was beating at an unnerving rate as I [...]
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