It all started over 100 years ago.
In 1909, women marched on the streets of New York on regular basis, hoisting banners calling for shorter work hours, better pay and voting rights.
Women around the world have stopped running away from past struggles and are now looking ahead to all the opportunities that await them.
March 8 is [...]
As graduation draws near students need to start thinking about how they will pay their student loans.
According to Statistics Canada, in 2007, two years after completing bachelor or doctorate degrees, students owe an average of $20,000.
Some students have a large amount of debt, and that can bring a lot of stress and pressure on them. Students need to [...]
We’ve all seen it, and most of us have done it. We put on our Team Canada jerseys, paint our faces, wave Canadian flags and banners with beer in hand and a moose elegantly seated in our laps. A full-size live one, none of those pansy stuffed things. Hockey fever sets in at every world [...]
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 [...]
A Moncton man’s desire to have a drink may have saved his life. With temperatures hovering well below zero, a judge’s decision to lock up a repeat offender could be the warmest news this homeless man has heard all winter.
Bernard Patrick Gallant, 58, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty in a Moncton courthouse last week, [...]
The principal at Fredericton’s newest middle school said students are a lot safer now, thanks to a new speed radar sign installed near the school zone.
Bliss Carman Middle School Principal Peter Steeves said the new speed radar sign installed in his school zone is making a big difference.
“It has slowed the traffic down, and you know that [...]
With six weeks to go until the sale of NB Power, many New Brunswickers are concerned. They’re confused about the lack of information about the updated Memorandum of Understanding; and they’re worried the province’s largest industry is keeping information about it out of the newspaper media they control.
Yvonne Devine is the chair of the Conservation [...]
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 [...]
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