It starts with a half naked Taylor Lautner, but it goes downhill from there. It’s time for the vampire-human wedding of the millennium. It’s super cheesy with long, dramatic shots of the dress and the vows. The camera pans and the guests disappear as the couple kisses. When they leave for their honeymoon, a [...]
The clank of a cowbell sets off the sound of shuffling feet. People navigate from table to table. A number on each one. The guests exchange personal stories and contact information. Then the bell rings again and the process starts all over. These people are not looking for romance – their motivation is ambition. This [...]
Since 2007, Canadian men have been growing mustaches and giving more reasons to remember, remember the month of November. Just ask Peter Mallette. The former CTV News reporter, anchor and producer in Halifax and current director of Prostate Cancer Canada Atlantic, noticed how mainstream the movement went in 2010 when he realized how many mustaches [...]
My Name is Leanne Osmond. I’m a fourth year journalism student and I hail from the beautiful rock called Newfoundland. I came to New Brunswick in 2008 to begin my journalism studies and I’ll be graduating in May with my BA. I somehow fell into studying philosophy and it turned out to become my minor, [...]
Over 200 New Brunswickers marched downtown to the legislature on Saturday in another protest against shale gas extraction in the province. They began marching at 10 a.m. at the burial grounds on Woodstock Rd. and carried signs that read, “Say no to shale gas” and “Don’t frack with our future.” They chanted “Hey hey, ho [...]
At 10:45 p.m., a phone call came 105 minutes late. “Hi, this is Jeff Pearlman. I owe you a huge apology. This is the lamest excuse ever: I fell asleep, I took an hour nap.” When you’ve dedicated the last three years of your life to interviewing almost 700 sources to tell the story of [...]
Imagine a world where buying groceries doesn’t cost $80, but costs seven days of your life. In Andrew Niccol’s In Time, a future is shown where lengths of a lifetime are the currency. People are born with 25 years to live. After that, they stop aging physically, and are given one free year to [...]
The sound of boots hitting the pavement echoed through Queen Street as hundreds of soldiers, veterans, officers and pipers marched to Fredericton’s Cenotaph. Frederictonians lined the streets as made their way along the green to pay tribute to those who fell while serving under the Canadian flag, and those who were fortunate enough to come [...]
Despite the pouring rain men, women, and children gathered around the Cenotaph in downtown Fredericton to remember and honour Canada’s soldiers who fought and died in wars past, and present. Service men, women, and veterans from all branches of the Canadian Armed forces marched from the Carleton Street Armouries continuing down Queen Street to the Cenotaph for [...]
Although the new code of conduct at St. Thomas University has been raising a few questions on campus, it isn’t going to change much. The new code will take policies already existing at the University and meld them into one document. It will be easier to find the rules, but for the most part, they’ll [...]
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