In David Adams Richards’ novel, Facing the Hunter: Reflections on a Misunderstood Way of Life, Richards tries to knock away the misconceptions of the lifestyle of hunting. He begins by identifying the stereotypes of a hunter. To the novice or the uneducated, hunting can be perceived as an unsophisticated, barbaric ritual practiced by rednecks who hunt [...]
St. Thomas University women’s cross-country team placed fifth in Atlantic University Sport (AUS) championships during the women’s five-kilometre race this past weekend at Odell Park, in their first-year of AUS competition. Until this year, STU has competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) level of play for university sport, and after five seasons with [...]
The APEGNB, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick, have collaborated with the Charlotte Street Arts Centre in presenting a one of a kind Haunted Tour to raise funds for the CSAC’s outreach program.
The results are in and most Fredericton residents are satisfied with city services, according to the most recent citizen attitude survey. The survey, conducted every two years by telephone, asked Frederictonians about their satisfaction with city services like road and sidewalk maintenance, the fire and police departments, waste management, recreation programs and by-law enforcement. Four [...]
The University of New Brunswick Engineering faculty will be making some adjustments. In a note to students, staff and faculty, the dean of students, David Coleman, presented two options to “re-organize” the faculty. The first option would see UNB Engineering change from five-departments to one; the second option is a three-department faculty. UNB currently offers [...]
Most of us can’t begin the day without at least one hit, something to the get the blood flowing, a stimulant. We often don’t want to admit that we can’t go a day, let alone a few hours, without it. We get another hit after lunch; another when we get home from school; something to [...]
Genetically modified salmon might as well come straight from the devil’s fish tank. That was the message delivered last Wednesday by a travelling forum of activists who were set on stopping the approval of every kind of genetically modified food, but specifically salmon. Their main concern is that modified salmon, or “Frankenfish” as they call [...]
Jennifer Leslie was told she was pregnant by an emergency room doctor she had never met before. She had no family doctor, and when the one at the emergency room informed her she was a “high risk,” she was scared. “This was my first child. I was going on the word of this ER doctor, [...]
It was at my initial visit to Mercy Hospital’s New England Eating Disorder program when I heard some of the most startling facts about my body. Gloria, one of the nurses, looks at me and said “Hun, I don’t know how you are still standing. I can’t find your pulse anywhere.” I knew I was [...]
This is the final part of a three-part series featuring local reaction to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For Naveed Majid, the communications director at the Fredericton Islamic Association, moving on and pardoning isn’t as easy as Rabbi Yosef Goldman sees it. “We’ve got examples right here… The expulsion of the Acadian people here in 1775. People still remember it. You can see the Acadian flag [...]
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