About 100 students gathered at St. Thomas University on March 27th for the campus’ fourth annual Relay for Life. Third year student Matt Sheriko organized the event, which is usually well-attended. But he didn’t do it on his own. “I had a core committee of I think about 12 of us” said Sheriko, “And then [...]
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 since they started. In 2006, this group of students started giving out a silver cross [...]
[VO] Several hundred troops gathered on January 1st to pay their respects and offer a farewell salute for four Canadian soldiers and a journalist killed in Afghanistan just two days before. [Clip: Carol Grantly] “Unfortunately now, we’re one of the towns, we’re not just somebody mourning, it’s our own, it’s here now.” [Clip: Joe Bishara] [...]
The town of Yarmouth has been fighting for a lifeline since an announcement made by Bay Ferries on December 18th. After discovering the provincial government would not be helping fund the ferry service between Nova Scotia and Maine, Mark MacDonald, president and CEO of Bay Ferries, announced that they would be unable to continue the [...]
Watch it here! Fourth year St. Thomas student Jeremy Varner started P.H.A.D last year. The organization is aimed at creating awareness, along with fundraising, for Parkinson’s Disease, heart defects, Alzheimer’s disease and Diabetes. The group recently held an event at the St. Thomas campus, which Varner hopes will be just one of his many talks [...]
[VO] Parkinson’s disease, congenital heart defects, Alzheimer’s disease and Diabetes. Do you know the symptoms? How about the causes? Awareness and knowledge of these diseases is something that 4th year St. Thomas student Jeremy Varner is hoping to get across. [Clip: Jeremy Varner]“I decided to make the foundation and educate some people so that way [...]
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 [...]
Watch it here: People of all ages gathered around the cenotaph in Fredericton Wednesday morning for the Remembrance Day ceremony. Watch a slideshow of the ceremony below. Photos courtesy of Diane Cole.
On the 11th of November, at 11:00 a.m., people across Canada stand still for two minutes of silence in honour of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Much was the same in Fredericton Wednesday morning. People of all ages gathered for the Remembrance Day ceremony that takes place every year around the [...]
The human papillomavirus (HPV) is a sexually transmitted infection that has become more common over the past few years. But with recent negative reports surrounding the vaccination for HPV, some women are debating whether or not they should get it. Gardasil is a vaccine created to help prevent HPV and cervical cancer. When it was [...]
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