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<p>St. Thomas University student Sinclair Green is in the business of retrieving souls. She began her business, Sync into Clarity, in 2016 after discovering spirituality was her passion. Now she&#8217;s helping others connect with themselves through reiki and theta healing. “I just facilitate a space for the person to kind of bring back those pieces [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Buckingham Palace announced on Jan. 18 the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are giving up their titles and royal duties and plan to move to Canada. Barry MacKenzie, the Maritime Regional Coordinator for the Monarchist League of Canada, said their decision won&#8217;t make a huge impact on the British identity. If anything, he said their [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Content warning: This story discusses death, shootings and gun violence. A teenage boy was shot and killed on his way home from school in Toronto on Jan. 20. There were 492 shootings in Toronto in 2019, a record high since 2014, according to data by the Toronto Police. Moncton saw a spike of shootings in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University student and co-president of the STU Mental Health Society Ashley Thornton said society sees mental illness as people crying and rocking back and forth, but that isn&#8217;t always the case. That&#8217;s why the Mental Health Society hosted the Elephant in the Room event on Jan. 24 at Kinsella Auditorium. Their aim was [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When someone coughs next to me I feel imminent threat. I hiss at my friends to wear a mask if they are sick, and if needed I even share my own precious masks I steal from the University of New Brunswick Student Health Centre. It&#8217;s disappointing when they accept the mask but never wear it. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sofia Paura, a third-year St. Thomas University student, thought censorship was in the past until a Brazilian judge temporarily banned Netflix’s The First Temptation of Christ. It portrays a pot-smoking Mary and Jesus as a gay man. The judge said banning the film would be the best for Brazil’s Christian community, which makes up most [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The first time Taya Doucet heard about a website called Rate My Professor was when she attended Petitcodiac Regional High School. During her Grade 12 year, grads would send videos with advice to current students. One of those recommendations was Rate My Professor. “I love the app in terms of balancing my schedule,” Doucet said. “It made it [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In 1990, Juliane Nowe, a certified cannabis coach, was born with a low immune system which made her prone to illness like the cold and flu. In early high school, doctors discovered cysts on her vocal chords, possibly related to a bad childhood case of whooping cough. Medical professionals recommended surgery, but considering the high [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Correction: An earlier version of this story indicated the Kamazuka family has moved seven times within Japan and three in USA. In fact, Kamazukas haven&#8217;t moved that many times but spent seven years living in United States, and three years in Fredericton. We regret the error. ————————————————————————————————————— Every morning at 7 a.m., Hirofumi Kamazuka, 50, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For some students, Christmas break means home-cooked meals and three weeks with no classwork. For others, it&#8217;s like walking into a war zone. But I&#8217;m here to share three ways to survive the holiday season. Welcome to Jasmine&#8217;s Declassified Christmas Survival Guide. One: Do you want to build a partner? &#8220;So, Jasmine, have you met anyone yet?&#8221; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When second-year St. Thomas University student Juandi Correa&#8217;s family comes together, they can&#8217;t eat meat, seafood or dairy. His mom&#8217;s lactose intolerant, his sister&#8217;s a vegetarian and Correa doesn&#8217;t eat red meat, seafood or dairy for environmental and health reasons. It can make Chrismas dinner challenging. Correa&#8217;s family cooks together and looks for recipes everyone [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This will be my sixth Christmas since my dad died. I know it&#8217;s taboo to talk about loss, especially around the holidays when we&#8217;re supposed to be giving thanks and celebrating. But the first Christmas after a loss, and the few more after it, can suck. Before you call me a grinch, please hear me out. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Albert County Pageant Queen, Miss Teen Maritime International and National Canadian Teen are some of the titles Brooklyn Wilkins wears with pride. This July, the first-year St. Thomas University student will represent Canada on the international stage at the Royal International Miss Pageant. &#8220;The week is going to be filled with rehearsals and little themed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A video created by an entertainment news site and YouTube channel Collider shows Robert Downey Jr., Tom Cruise, George Lucas, Ewan McGregor and Jeff Goldblum at a round table where they discuss the streaming wars between Netflix, Disney+, Hulu and cinema. When asked about seeing Star Wars in theatres, Downey Jr. said, &#8220;It&#8217;s one of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Victoria Narváez, a fourth-year psychology student at St. Thomas University, said her father is religious and sexist, something she said is the “perfect definition” of a boomer. &#8220;To finally have something that I wouldn&#8217;t have to explain to him and just be like, &#8216;OK boomer,&#8217; is kind of hilarious,&#8221; Narváez said. Narváez said her father thinks [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Shauna Spudik, a former University of New Brunswick student now living in Alberta, is in the middle of Wexit country. She said she knows a lot of people in Alberta think Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn&#8217;t care about the province, which has fuelled the Wexit movement. &#8220;It upsets them because Alberta plays a big role [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Rez Famous began as a saying printed on a t-shirt. But after its official launch last year, the clothing line turned into a way to make Indigenous culture more visible. Talon Simon, a University of New Brunswick student from Elsipogtog First Nation, is the creator of Rez Famous. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been getting a lot of youth [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Michala Keeler is a fourth-year St. Thomas University student triple majoring in English, philosophy and psychology. She enjoys exploring new places, running errands with her friends and listening to music 24/7. Most people that meet me think I’m childish, a party girl who doesn’t care about her schooling and will miss weeks of classes at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ashley Thornton is a second-year criminology and psychology major at St. Thomas University from Fredericton. She&#8217;s one of the co-founders and one of the co-presidents of the St. Thomas University Mental Health Society. As someone diagnosed with general anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, I can attest to the fact that mental illness [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University T-Ring dates back to the 1940s. After the Second World War, the father of former minister of post-secondary education, training and labour Tom Mann used it to propose to Mann&#8217;s mother, according to Jeffrey Carleton, STU&#8217;s associate vice president of communications. With Remembrance Day around the corner, stories like this often [&hellip;]</p>