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<p>Content warning: Please be advised this article discusses residential schools and genocide. This story is part one of a two-part series about Truth and Reconciliation Day. The next part will discuss the upcoming events happening for the holiday. Logan Perley woke up on the morning of Sept. 1 to his phone buzzing. Everyone was talking [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Students are adding ballots to their back-to-school shopping lists this fall after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for a snap election for Monday, Sept. 20. Despite a country-wide push this summer, Elections Canada made the decision not to put polls on campus this year. This means that to vote, St. Thomas University students will have [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Parida Kabylbek, 58, was five when her father fled from China to Kazakhstan due to political pressure from the Chinese government. The family found him after 25 years, which was the first time Kabylbek saw him since he fled. It was on her wedding day. Today, most of her family lives in Kazakhstan except for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Content warning: This letter to the editor contains racial slurs. The opinions expressed in this letter are the writer&#8217;s and do not reflect those of The Aquinian, its editorial board or its board of directors. The Aquinian doesn&#8217;t allow hate speech. The Aquinian reserves its right to publish letters to the editor and does so [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Unlike many of my colleagues and friends, I didn&#8217;t start university as a journalist. I didn&#8217;t show up to my first story meeting in first year with a notebook full of ideas and plans to one day be managing editor. Like most of the good things in my life, I stumbled into The Aquinian almost [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Louise Michaud, a former St. Thomas University student and Yukon Deputy Minister for corporate policy and consumer affairs, said braille had a major impact on her success. She said the biggest obstacle she has as a visually impaired person is the expectations of others. “People found it difficult to understand how somebody who&#8217;s blind could [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The four-day work week model recently emerged after the Spanish government approved a $50 million pilot project that allows 200 companies to test the four-day, 32-hour work week.  Clara Santacruz, the manager of the office of experiential and community-based learning at St. Thomas University, said working students would benefit as they would have more time [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University third-year international students, Khanh Do and Melissa Peña, are not only full-time students. They are both passionate business owners. Do, a political science and business major from Vietnam, created Azusa Studio, an ethical and sustainable tie-dye athletic leisure clothing brand. Azusa is the Japanese word for “tree.” Do had the idea for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In order to be productive with schoolwork, chores and basic self-care, I used an app called Flora that would lock my phone. If I tried to open my phone, the app would kill a virtual plant that I was growing. With my poor attention span, this stopped working and I realized I needed to up [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Vatican released a statement that said the Catholic Church can’t bless same-sex marriages about a week ago. The statement raised confusion because Pope Francis said in the Vatican-approved documentary Francesco “homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God.” Online discussions have surged about the hypocrisy of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As law enforcement agencies in Canada and the United States move more into digital technology, the Fredericton Police are following suit and investing in this technology in body cameras. The Fredericton Police are expanding their uses of body cameras to 12. They bought seven more body cameras to be used. This expansion of over $200,000 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The social media app TikTok is flooded with videos where Millennials and Generation Z attack each other over cultural differences. Gen Z initiated this rift by calling side parts and skinny jeans out-of-date, while Millennials fought back with videos teasing Gen Z’s fragility. Caroline Jonah, a fourth-year Gen Z St. Thomas University student, said this [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The British Royal Family has been a popular topic in the last few weeks because of the interview the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, did with Oprah Winfrey on March 7 on their experience and treatment inside the Royal Family. Miluska Hessen Walton is a mother of two from Lima, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This story is a satire piece based on the theft of a condom dispenser and a pitcher at The Cellar Pub and Grill last week. None of the sources used are real people. It was all a blur, according to the witness washing his hands in The Cellar Pub and Grill bathroom on Friday night. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The change in the vaccination schedule comes after both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna increased their supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine to Canada.  Dr. Jennifer Russell, New Brunswick’s chief medical officer of health, said in a press conference on March 12 that the province has a plan so all New Brunswickers would have one dose by Canada [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Patrice Cammarano, the co-founder of the St. Thomas Mental Health Society, said doomscrolling can sometimes stem from social influence and that people doomscroll because they fear missing out on the most current news. He said social media is addictive, and the colours and patterns make people more engaged. Logging onto an app can sometimes send [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sydney Vidito, 24, said the pandemic gave her more time to work on her creativity and grow a small business. “I started just selling hats in my free time. But then once the pandemic hit, I had way more time on my hands.”  Vidito then created her small business called SV Designs. She&#8217;s sold hats, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Alex Cunningham, a St. Thomas University graduate, launched a clothing pattern selling business on Etsy named Mountain and Lighthouse Co. The shop was inspired by Cunningham’s efforts over quarantine to learn to sew her own clothes, which eventually led to creating her own patterns. “Generally speaking, I’m a really goal-oriented and determined person,” said Cunningham. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mary MacLean, a St. Thomas University graduate, works with Defence Research and Development Canada as a defence scientist. She investigates the science and innovation that gives the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence an edge over its adversaries. Born in Fredericton, MacLean originally went to STU for its journalism program after a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Erin Fredericks, a St. Thomas University sociology professor, is coordinating a program to connect queer youth of New Brunswick with older members of the community and give them the opportunity to learn from them, especially during these times of isolation. The project will pair elderly members of the queer community with younger members to share [&hellip;]</p>