YOUR FINAL BIOGRAPHY: A Three Part Series on the Future of Your DNA by Shane Fowler Part 1 – A Cheaper Crystal Ball 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 [...]
Activists in Fredericton are disappointed tonight after the anticipated resolution by city council to ban shale gas didn’t happen. After a presentation by anti-shale gas activist, Mark D’Arcy, that stressed the health and environmental risks shale gas development poses for Fredericton, Mayor Brad Woodside quickly moved to the resolution. “Thank you for the presentation,” Woodside said before motioning [...]
It was a quiet little town, off the grid. It hugged the American border and had a river separating the two sides of Perth and Andover, or as some of the locals say, Perth-and-over. It was one of New Brunswick’s tiny towns going about its own daily business. One business in the area is the [...]
“Finding your balance is a lifetime high wire journey.” Sheree Fitch, poet and author, is no stranger to the high wire. She wrote those words in her late twenties, while finding her balance between parenting and studying, childhood and adulthood, serious and nonsense, joy and sorrow. Now, at 55, Fitch is a best-selling author, educator [...]
*Warning: story contains some graphic detail Fredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo is getting weaker. He feels a pain in his body, his teeth, and his head. His hands shake when he speaks. A half empty bottle of water stands beside him. It barely ever touches his dry lips. When he laughs, the pain in his ribs makes [...]
Ask anyone from St. Mary’s First Nation why the community has grown and prospered over the years and they credit two things: location and leadership. That leader, for the past eight years has been Chief Candice Paul, along with 12 council members. “Some communities are not used to good leadership, so they don’t know they [...]
A provincial social assistance program on First Nation communities in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island has been put to a halt. Justice Sandra Simpson granted a temporary injunction assessing that the changes would be harmful, and that the federal government failed to follow due process; rules to ensure both parties are treated [...]
“This is not the first time I’ve been on this roller coaster,” says Mike Shepherd, and you can hear his wry grin through the phone line. Shepherd is the vice president of the Canadian Association of Computer Science, and the Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University. He’s talking about enrollment in [...]
NGO’s or non-governmental organizations are often subject to stereotypes. However these stereotypes are not the usual negative and pessimistic projections of the individuals behind the organizations. We often think of the people who run NGOs as those who have the luxury and time to work for little or no pay and indulge in philanthropic work [...]
Cool, calm, collected, and at one with the universe. No it’s not the hippest yoga classes in town, but the Japanese ancient martial art of quick drawing a samurai sword, or Iaido in its original Japanese. Iaido comes from the Japanese characters “I” which means being, “A” which means harmony, and “DO” which means way. [...]
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