Like a chameleon the internet is always changing and shifting,which means the way we communicate is always changing too. Twelve years ago there was only a select group of people who controlled the content on the internet. Only those who could afford to hire a technology excerpt, trained in HTML coding, controlled the content on [...]
“Rules are like women, made to be violated” Quote from Quebec Judge Denys Dionne (1989).
In 2010 sexual assault still happens, and to some it is still not an important issue. As the quote above illustrates, some people feel women do not have a right over their own bodies.
Bill Patrick, Ph.D., Gender Justice Collaborator, spoke at [...]
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Alaina Nugent March 10, 2010 | Posted in
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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 [...]
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Corinne Frost February 24, 2010 | Posted in
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Luke Rogerson sits in his dim basement, balled up in an armchair. He’s explaining last night, when the sound guy stomped on the smoke machine half-way through the show because he’d forgotten about it earlier. The make-up smoke plumed up onto the stage, then out into the 200-strong mass of bodies pulsing to [...]
Becky Bourgese was told her son Todd would die at the age of 14 or 15. Todd is now 33, and starting his own family.
Mitch Dorge, drummer for the Canadian band Crash Test Dummies, was at Bliss Carman Middle School in Fredericton Thursday night giving a presentation on making responsible choices with drugs and alcohol.
After the Crash Test Dummies went on hiatus in 2001, Dorge started building a program aimed at inspiring people to go out and pursue something they [...]
“Difference” is a perfect word to describe Li Song.
Song moved to Saint John, NB, Canada from her country, China in 2002. She studied at University of New Brunswick Saint John (UNBSJ) and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education.
To an uninformed observer at the Lady Beaverbrook Rink, he looked like another college hockey player. The real story is much more compelling. He’s an ex-professional, ex-convict working on a second chance.
For Mike Danton, playing hockey for the St. Mary’s University Huskies is like a breath of fresh air. For the last 62 months, Danton [...]
Jeremy Varner was born with congenital heart disease. In September his sister Jillian was diagnosed with diabetes. In October his grandfather Roy was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. In November his grandmother Janet needed immediate medical attention for a heart defect. Two months ago, his mother Nancy was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Now, this fourth year St. [...]
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Jackie Allan February 7, 2010 | Posted in
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Throughout their career, the members of Airbourne have opened up for the likes of the Rolling Stones, Motorhead and Motley Crue. If you thought this might be stressful, how about releasing your sophomore major label album? Airbourne, the Australian pub-rock quartet, is gearing up for another world tour, and is hoping its new album, No [...]
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Dave Gauthier February 6, 2010 | Posted in
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