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<p>It was zero degrees with the wind chill and Tabitha Evans and Lauren Acorn were shivering on the front steps of the Legislative assembly of New Brunswick. They are co-chairs of St. Thomas University Sustainability Club. The advocacy group planned a climate rally that took place from noon until 1 p.m. on Nov. 22. There [&hellip;]</p>

<p>While Market Greens is only open for a few more weeks, its mother program, Community Food Smart, will continue to operate as an option for those struggling to afford healthy foods.  Market Greens is a non-profit organization that sells cheap, fresh produce at the Fredericton Public Library every Wednesday from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University hosted its Long Night Against Procrastination event on Nov. 17, designed to help build motivation and alleviate stress as students approach the end of the semester. The Aquinian&#8217;s photo editor, Daniel Salas, produced this photo essay.</p>

<p>A beekeeping course held at the University of New Brunswick on Nov. 5 marks a growing interest in the craft in New Brunswick. Beekeeper Andrew Byers taught the course to a capped set of 25 students.  “We taste honey, we build hives,” said Byers. “It’s a time to relax and talk with a bunch of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Desmond Simon has a tattoo on his hand of a torch with the word &#8220;Sapper&#8221; written beneath it. It comes from his time in the Canadian Armed Forces, where he served as a combat engineer. On his back, he has a tattoo of the Mi’kmaw word &#8220;Sma’knis&#8221; meaning &#8220;soldier.&#8221; Simon joined up at a time [&hellip;]</p>

<p>FREDERICTON (CUP) — Just outside downtown Fredericton sits a little vintage store on the corner of Smythe and King. Chase Benjamin Antiques is a small, locally owned business that is adored by many lovers of the past. Visitors can walk in and find a man and his young son looking at timeless comic books, or [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After entering the shared washroom of Vanier Hall, Renelle Belliveau finds all the showers open except for the only one she can use – the accessible one. This is normal for Belliveau, who has been in a wheelchair since she was 14 years old. “It’s accessible but it’s not practical at all,” she said. Now [&hellip;]</p>

<p>STU Sustainability hosted a Paint-a-Pot and Plant Sale on Nov. 4 in Sir James Dunn Hall, which acted as a fundraiser for the society. Students looking to grow their indoor plant collection got a chance to browse the plants and paint their own pots. The Aquinian&#8217;s photo editor, Daniel Salas, stopped by the event and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For people from Canada or the United States, Halloween is a time filled with trick-or-treating, haunted houses and costumes, but this isn’t the case in other countries. For Rigel Testas, a first-year student at St. Thomas University, celebrating Halloween in Canada meant that she could go out at night and wear a costume that she [&hellip;]</p>

<p>My friend, Tristan Rampersaud, and I went to the Freddy Fright Fest haunted house at the Capital Exhibit Centre on Friday night. The decorations in the waiting area were cheap inflatables, cheesy, unconvincing stuff from Spirit Halloween. It looked good, but the decor didn’t foreshadow an authentic horror experience. Rampersaud and I wondered if this [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Professor Jamie Gillies’ “Communications &amp; Taylor Swift” class hosted a listening party on Oct. 20 to celebrate Taylor Swift&#8217;s latest album release, Midnights. Located at the Black Box Theatre in Sir James Dunn Hall, students from the course listened to the entire album in the early hours of the morning. “It was really fun because [&hellip;]</p>

<p>My eight siblings and I grew up on Maywood Street in a Montreal suburb. We lived next to a park and had lots of neighbourhood friends. All year round we would talk about the white house with the blue two-door garage. The white house with the two-door garage came alive around October 1. Large blue [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Coburn Farms in Keswick Ridge sold Natural Gold Compost to the public for 29 years, but that came to an end on Oct. 11.  “[It&#8217;s] a little disappointing. You build something after 29 years, but you have to look at the bigger picture,” said David Coburn, owner of the farm. The news may have been [&hellip;]</p>

<p>From a cat named after Ted Bundy to an intersex tabby — queer students have interesting students. The Aquinian’s features editor, Jacob Moore, spoke with four students about their interesting cats. Brie Sparks’s cats Bundy and Ravi Q: Is that Bundy as in Ted? I hope not. Sparks: No, it is. He came to us [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) signs are scattered across the curbsides, parking lots and roads of Fredericton to bring awareness to the dangers of impaired driving. MADD teamed up with the Fredericton Police Force this month for the “Impaired Driver Caught Here” campaign. Signs were placed at 15 locations across the city where police arrested drivers [&hellip;]</p>

<p>My gender identity is indistinguishable from the rest of me. It is not a finite definition that I can easily label. It is infinite and as unique as I am. What I call my gender is not something anyone else could possibly experience; it is inseparable from being what I call Myself. I know I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When people hear the words “mental health,” most would think of mental illness, therapy or self care. The St. Thomas University Mental Health Society is changing up the game by adding trivia and movie nights to that list. The society hosted its first-ever trivia night on Oct. 15 at the Cellar Pub and Grill in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Facing record demand and skyrocketing costs, the Greener Village food bank is calling out for help from the Fredericton community. “We’ve burned through the budget because of inflation,” said Alexa English, a volunteer and project coordinator at Greener Village. “We’re relying more on the public than we were anticipating to.” Greener Village has operated as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With the City of Saint John implementing a four-day workweek as a pilot project beginning on Oct. 17, Fredericton’s deputy mayor awaits the results of the trial to see if Fredericton could implement something similar. The Saint John City Council voted unanimously on Sept. 26 to trial a four-day workweek for municipal employees. Beginning Oct. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I’m not the person I was one month ago. I poured over the reality of the 33 million people adrift or dead who spoke my language — a population nearly that of Canada crushed beneath glaciers, their lives now rotted floodwater. My body was nauseous, my anger articulate. I had felt Pakistan vividly then. I [&hellip;]</p>