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Features Social media causing a social change

Social media causing a social change »

Like a chameleon the internet is always changing and shifting,which means the way we communicate is always changing too. Twelve years ago there was only a select group of people who controlled the content on the internet. Only those who...

By Melissa Wah March 11 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Sexual Assault and Violence in Canada

Sexual Assault and Violence in Canada »

“Rules are like women, made to be violated” Quote from Quebec Judge Denys Dionne (1989).  In 2010 sexual assault still happens, and to some it is still not an important issue. As the quote above illustrates, some people feel women do...

By Alaina Nugent March 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »
“It’s our duty”

“It’s our duty” »

In the small town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, there’s a group of junior high and high school students called the Memorial Club. This club has been around for 25 years now and has been honouring Canadian veterans and war dead...

By Corinne Frost February 24 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Subtlety and screaming

Subtlety and screaming »

Luke Rogerson sits in his dim basement, balled up in an armchair. He’s explaining last night, when the sound guy stomped on the smoke machine half-way through the show because he’d forgotten about it earlier. The make-up smoke...

By TJ Milburn February 24 2010 / No comment / Read More »

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Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all »

Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all

It all started over 100 years ago. In 1909, women marched on the streets of New York on regular basis, hoisting banners calling for shorter...

By Ayat Abed Isaid Mar 9 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Student debt causes trouble for graduates »

Student debt causes trouble for graduates

As graduation draws near students need to start thinking about how they will pay their student loans. According to Statistics Canada, in 2007, two years...

By Alaina Nugent Mar 3 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Jail term probably saved man’s life »

Jail term probably saved man’s life

A Moncton man’s desire to have a drink may have saved his life. With temperatures hovering well below zero, a judge’s decision to lock...

By Jason Murray Feb 19 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Speed radar signs keeping kids safe: principal »

Speed radar signs keeping kids safe:  principal

The principal at Fredericton’s newest middle school said students are a lot safer now, thanks to a new speed radar sign installed near the school zone. Bliss...

By Jody Nabuurs Feb 17 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Town hall meeting gives power to the people »

Town hall meeting gives power to the people

With six weeks to go until the sale of NB Power, many New Brunswickers are concerned. They’re confused about the lack of information about...

By Jason Murray Feb 17 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Small town fights to stay afloat »

Small town fights to stay afloat

The town of Yarmouth has been fighting for a lifeline since an announcement made by Bay Ferries on December 18th. After discovering the provincial...

By Corinne Frost Feb 15 2010 / No comment / Read More »

UNB receives funding for reconstruction »

UNB receives funding for reconstruction

Watch it here! UNB recieved more funding from the provincial government for reconstruction of Jones House. All student services including student health center would now...

By Damira Davletyarova Feb 13 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Opinion

Hockey… It’s all we’ve got »

Hockey… It’s all we’ve got

We’ve all seen it, and most of us have done it. We put on our Team Canada jerseys, paint our faces, wave Canadian flags and banners with beer in hand and a moose elegantly seated in our laps. A full-size live one, none of those...

By Chelsea Stevens Feb 24 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Women’s Studies gets last laugh in National Post editorial »

Women’s Studies gets last laugh in National Post editorial

I am standing in a room full of shadows. The faceless figures stare back at me, begging to tell their stories. My eyes fixate on their shiny gold badges. The horror of their lives are written on their chests, marking them. “Bludgeoned to death by her estranged...

By Gilean Watts Feb 9 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Eh, Oh, Canada, No? New Olympic chant a bust! »

Eh, Oh, Canada, No? New Olympic chant a bust!

Pepsi Canada has unleashed it’s newest campaign to get Olympic spectators to pop out of their seats. Eh, Oh Canada, Go, according to Pepsi, will be the new Olympic chant every Canadian will be screaming at the top of their lungs come February in Vancouver....

By Dave Gauthier Jan 22 2010 / No comment / Read More »
From the field

Meredith O’Hara »

Meredith O’Hara

It’s been a year and a half since I graduated; I’m the producer for a morning show on the #1 radio station in Calgary...

By The Beacon Feb 19 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Melissa Oakley »

Melissa Oakley

Melissa Oakley graduated from the St. Thomas journalism programme in the spring of 2009 and immediately went to work with the CBC in Fredericton...

By The Beacon Jan 14 2010 / No comment / Read More »
 

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