Soft sunlight filters into the cafeteria in Sir James Dunn Hall on St. Thomas University’s campus, glinting off the polished wood of Stephen Peacock’s guitar. It’s a little rounder and the fret-board is over further than the usual acoustic guitars you see young, long haired students toting around with them. Peacock is a classical guitar [...]
Retail stores begin decorating with garland and holly early in November to remind customers of the coming holiday season. Christmas is supposed to bring out the best in people, but Doreen Rodriguez thinks the opposite. She’s a customer service manager at Wal-Mart, and feels that customers are not in the best of spirits. “I feel [...]
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 is a day that St. Thomas student Kelsey Knowles will never forget. That was the day she carried the Olympic torch. Even though it was only 300 meters through Riverside Albert, a tiny village near Alma, New Brunswick, it cemented her place in Canadian sports history.
They’re just four guys from Halifax who like rock out and party till dawn. The band’s called Sleepless Nights and it was started roughly five years ago by vocalist/guitarist Aaron Wallace. It started out as a slow three piece folk band, which gradually turned into an eight piece orchestral-pop ensemble and has recently found its [...]
“Well it started actually in September 2008, I believe, yeah, 2008. We’d all known that there was a media monopoly in New Brunswick, or a near monopoly. We’d all known it for a long time but in September 2008 we had a, we call it the New Brunswick Social Forum which was basically a weekend [...]
Stop the presses! There’s a new kid in town. Well really, it’s a new media source for New Brunswick. The Brief is a one-page, double-sided publication printed on 30 per cent recycled paper. On average it contains five or six stories and a list of community events. Oh, and it’s a monthly publication with stories [...]
“I am a supporter of the idea that anyone can run a newspaper and shouldn’t be prevented from running any number of newspapers in any market they choose and the Irvings have taken advantage of that, it’s a fundamental freedom of Canada, there’s nothing wrong with that. But the problem is diversity. I don’t think [...]
In the non-profit camp world, it is normal to be competing for money. Matt Sheriko and Chad Duplessie are vying for cash in the same contest-the Aviva Community Fund. They don’t know each other, but they agree on this: the dollar is always needed and hard to get. Sheriko is the Assistant Director of Camp Triumph. [...]
Good drinks and good food raised the spirits of more than 650 people Friday night at the Delta Hotel in Fredericton. Glasses of high-end whisky, Scotch, and vodka, (also called spirits) clinked together at this year’s New Brunswick Spirits Festival. Vendors came from all over the country to showcase their products at this annual festival, [...]
Tis the season of giving. So this Christmas season, the STU/UNB Canadian Red Cross Club is encouraging people to donate to the Malaria Christmas Card Campaign. The campaign focuses on raising money for bed nets for those threatened by malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. The Canadian Red Cross wants both the university communities and Fredericton residents [...]
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