Commentary

<p>This year&#8217;s pride week at St. Thomas University has passed and I am reminded of the many changes have taken place to make the university more inclusive for the queer community. However, I can’t help but think of the progress that still needs to be made. What I wonder about most is: how gender-neutral housing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>By now, you’ve probably read the headline and are seething. You want to punch me in the face. You want to ban me from the SPCA. You hate me and you don’t even know me. Fair. So, let me preface this article with this: I am in no way saying students who have pets are [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We live in a weird time. There’s no other way to put it. The technological progression of humanity in the last 30 years has left us, as people, struggling to comprehend our new social identity. That’s where the show Black Mirror comes in. It explores subjects that most people won’t even stop to think about, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>“Welcome home, Matt!” As his sweat rolled onto the stage, Matt Andersen smiled into the cheers from the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival’s Wednesday night crowd – one he’s known and grown with for 15 years now. Andersen, a singer-songwriter from Perth-Andover, about 175 km northwest of Fredericton, has become one of the Harvest Jazz [&hellip;]</p>

<p>There’s the miserable educated woman, the spineless man who won’t stand up to her, the carefree young man escaping crime to purse his dream (typically singing), his protective single mother with a past and four to six wildcard characters who use slapstick and fast slang to teach the young ones a lesson. This is the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>March Madness has been active for two weeks in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (also known as the NCAA), and there are only four teams remaining. Saturday, April 1 marks the start of the Final Four. On Monday night, the 2017 national champion will be crowned. The Villanova Wildcats, last year&#8217;s champion, was dethroned in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I’m lying on one of those hospital beds with the fake plastic mattress that you would stick to in the heat of summer. It’s winter though. Five heavy heated blankets are stacked on top of me, but I’m still shivering. Voices, beeping monitors, whispers, cries of pain and ringing phones fill the world beyond the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When you start university, people say you will find a class or prof that changes your life. This is my last semester of my last year, and up until now, I didn’t believe it. It wasn’t until I sat down in Michelle Lafrance’s Abnormal Psychology course, which I am admittedly taking for the credits, that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The following is a farewell letter to departing Tommies men’s rugby coach Jon Wilson written by fourth-year winger Mitchell Peardon on behalf of his teammates. Wilson recently stepped down as the Tommies’ bench boss, citing his young family, his job as a teacher and his desire to keep playing and eventually return to coaching as [&hellip;]</p>