Mr. St. Thomas prepares to leave
Since 1975, Larry Batt has been reading each and every St. Thomas University graduate’s name as they walk across the stage toward the rest of his or her life. “Each student is her own person, and deserves the attention, even if it is for 10 seconds. I get the name right, I get the hometown [...]
After 25 years of living with cystic fibrosis, three months in the hospital, and eight hours in surgery, Heather MacInnis has new lungs. It was last Monday afternoon, Feb. 20, when Heather’s doctors told her they may have found a match. They scheduled a tentative surgery for early Tuesday morning. The St. Thomas University student [...]
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Despite calls for food security and eating local, farmers, back-to-the-landers face huge obstacles in New Brunswick Molly, a dog resembling a small German shepherd with a curly tail, slips out the bottom of the green canvas tent. I watch her with one eye through the mesh door of my tent as she trots around a [...]
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Her small frame sits on the side of the hospital bed and her feet can’t touch the floor. Slowly, she stands up and makes her way, just two steps, to a chair next to her bed. Breathing hard, she collapses in the chair. Her head turns away and she coughs, loud and hollow, into the [...]
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With the biggest advertising day of the year behind us, the AQ’s Laura Brown asks why young people are so obsessed with certain brands As people across North America wind down after one of the most anticipated sporting events in the world, some advertisers are tickled pink. After all, the ads they [...]
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Nesha Bertin has wanted to be a lawyer since she was eight years old. But her dream changed when she became pregnant at 16. “As much as I love my son, it was devastating,” she said. “I didn’t think I would go to school on scholarship, I didn’t think I would finish high school, period, [...]
Continue reading …Bernie Lucht was 16 when he first watched the production of a television program. He was hooked. “I was impressed by the nature of the event, by the professionalism,” he said in a phone interview. “I thought to myself, ‘I want to work in this medium.’” The rest, as they say, is history. Lucht is [...]
Continue reading …Backstory: As The AQ’s Laura Brown discovered this summer, a house doesn’t always make a home
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It was the end of my third day at work and I realized I was dreading the walk home. When I got there, I walked directly up the two flights of stairs to my room, trying to avoid a run-in with any of my eight roommates. That became my routine for the next month. Have [...]
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There was the pencil in the 50s, the chevron in the 70s and the horseshoe in the 80s. Styles of the moustache have changed through the ages, but recent years have brought the hairy upper lip back in a different way – for charity. Movember is an annual event that involves growing a moustache during [...]
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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 …Is it because there are too many of us, or too much going to too few? In a small province located in the northern hemisphere, there sits just over 750,000 people. For the most part, these people live a good life, with access to clean water, food, education and electricity. Most are English-speaking, but a [...]
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It’s inevitable – university students are saying good-bye to their beloved educational institutions carrying a heavier burden than ever before. With the average debt level at $37,000 for Atlantic Canadian scholars, it’s no wonder the idea of leaving your alma mater may leave some with a panic attack. Like Tiffany Doucet. She’s a recent graduate [...]
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