Want to know how you’re going to die? Just spit. Want to know what’s going to make your baby sick? Collect some blood. Inside every one of your cells is a mountain of information that can tell you everything about your body, even the things you may not want to know.
Over the last several decades The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been plagued by war and violence. Millions of Congolese have died as a result. Dictators, rebel forces and multinationals are making it almost impossible for citizens to live in peace. Hope in some newly elected government officials has dwindled, making many Congolese believe [...]
Seventy percent of the world’s population has mobile phones. As of the year 2011, Apple has sold almost 60 million iPhones world wide, while Google’s Android OS is growing at 886% year on year and now activating over 160,000 devices a day, across 60 devices in over 40 countries. ” The only thing I probably [...]
What happens in Greece does not always stay in Greece. Many Greeks now leave the country in search of jobs, and some of them arrive in Canada. Greek communities across Canada welcome new members. But some, like those in New Brunswick, try to help Greeks back home. Her name is Agapi and in Greek it means [...]
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Mark Buckle wasn’t planning to join the military. His dad and brother are in the field of para-medicine, and he always thought he’d do that too. But one day his buddy Brian Pinksen was driving him home from high school when they stopped at the Canadian Forces recruiting office. Buckle tagged along and listened to what the recruiter was telling his friend.
Melissa Clark* was lying in bed when she finally snapped. “The night that it actually all broke down and the police came, we were sleeping and I woke up and I really thought I was going to kill him.” Clark and her boyfriend had a healthy relationship once. They always spent time together and he [...]
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 [...]
This is part two of a three-part series featuring local reaction to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rabbi Yosef Goldman is another Jewish figure within the Fredericton community who has expressed his personal views on the conflict in his homeland. His views offer a silver lining in that not everyone in the conflict is polarized. About 30 [...]
“President Abbas, I extend my hand — the hand of Israel — in peace. I hope that you will grasp that hand.” Those words were spoken a month ago at the United Nations by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was a response to the impassioned speech by President Mahmoud Abbas, who had gone before the UN [...]
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