Being a student isn’t cheap. Tuition costs are at an all-time high and promise to go higher, with a $200 dollar hike in store for New Brunswick students next year. Between rising costs and continuing cuts to student loans, grant programs and scholarships more and more students are being forced to find not one, but [...]
Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine it’s 1985. You live in Musquash, New Brunswick. The nearest real city is Saint John, and it’s a half-hour away at best. The next nearest village is Blacks Harbour, which is at least the same distance. The kinds of things urbanites, or even townsfolk, take for granted like grocery stores, [...]
A documentary about nothing – transcript Music Fades in 4.00 sec Clip from ‘Flash Gordon’ plays to 36.00 sec To me the average comic book reader has always been molded as this geeky, dungeons and dragons playing per-pubescent boy. I’ve since come to realize that comic books are a widely popular and discussed topic among [...]
and why it’s ok to care. A few moons ago I found myself fascinated with Comic books and why so many people were coming out as comic book fans – because at the time it was a big deal. The importance of comic books and ‘hero culture’ came up again while working on a story [...]
Nathen Swain with the season closer for The Big Picture.
The story of Terry Fox is a tragedy in the classic sense, looking back on it as we do now.In the beginning it was a story of pure hope: he defied the disease that took his leg. Knowing the disease would take the rest of him makes the story feel different. A long road. A [...]
It could be said that all eyes turned towards the aspiring trends in media and technology in the 60’s, when Marshall McLuhan, dubbed “the Guru of the boob tube”, first made the declaration: “The medium is the message”. McLuhan, the “patron saint” of Wired magazine (a title given 10 years after his death), theorized that [...]
It started back in August. Canada’s copyright laws were under revision, and that put the UNB’s and St. Thomas’ use of copyrighted materials under the microscope. There was uncertainty as to what uses of learning materials would become illegal. The fear was that once settled, the new copyright laws would be enforced retroactively, and the [...]
There’s a secret society right here in Fredericton. In fact, it’s a network that reaches all around the world. They stroll around downtown, trying desperately to not draw attention to themselves. They have a GPS in hand and if you get a quick glimpse of them, they might feign it’s a cellphone. Or maybe you’re [...]
Jack Layton was in Saint John Monday, hoping to capitalize on a recent surge in the polls. With both Stephen Harper and Michael Ignatieff struggling to connect with voters, this was a chance for the NDP leader to start gaining some ground. A large crowd gathered on the Boardwalk behind the Hilton Hotel a full [...]
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