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<p>Three years ago, when Brittany Thorogood was in her early 20s, she received a message from a friend urging her to check out the link they had attached. When she clicked on it, she was taken to a “cam girls” website. She scrolled down the page and was mortified when she saw photos of herself [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Before she left Peru to come to Canada, Andrea Bárcenas, who graduated from St. Thomas University last year, had the “crazy” idea to fall in love with Paolo, a charming Peruvian man. Even if it meant spending more than half the year separated, they decided to risk it. “We can both tell the first year [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For all intents and purposes, I am disabled. I wear an ostomy bag 24/7 because when I was 16 years old, I had my colon removed. This was due to severe Crohn’s disease. I do not go to the bathroom like a normal person would – this would qualify me as disabled, right? The thing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Doctors in Ontario have recently been given the ability to prescribe exercise to their patients. “It seems kind of silly,” said Mike Eagles, Director of Athletics at St. Thomas University. “But everybody should do their best, depending on what they’re able to do, to get some exercise into their life. Not only for their physical [&hellip;]</p>

<p>My girlfriend and I are cuddling on my bed and we are talking. We are speaking about why and what we love about each other. I make a comment about loving her as a woman and her smile quickly falls, replaced by a worried frown and she bites her lip. I ask her what’s wrong, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Colleen Kitts-Goguen, 53, married with kids, started university again last year. She worried she wasn’t smart enough and that St. Thomas University students wouldn’t accept her. “I felt tremendous support from the professors, and really embraced by the students,” said the communications major. The fill-in host for CBC&#8217;s Shift wasn’t always confident in her abilities. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cathy Stewart, one of the many rural New Brunswick wives of an employee of a big-time Alberta company, says having a family member who comes and goes never gets any easier. “The person leaving sacrifices much more than those left behind. We have all the comforts of home and loved ones nearby – they get [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a hole in the ground, there lived the metalheads, a misunderstood people. We have invited you here today to tell you one thing: We are looking for someone to share in an adventure. An adventure to show you the metal world. Don’t be scared. “If you’re looking at metal from afar, that’s not the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Journalism, it seems, is more science than art – more exactness than brilliance. On the surface, it’s a man on TV with curt facts and a measured voice, a lady on the radio with pointed questions and investigative clarity. News presents itself as a backdrop of objective truths and point-­form knowledge against which we judge [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After being homeschooled and taking her high school courses online, Diana Poitras left her home, within walking distance of the University of Calgary, moving across the country to attend St. Thomas University. “On campus, I didn’t really know anyone and it was kind of hard to adjust to a city you’ve never been in, with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For some, finding summer employment is just a way to pay the bills but for others it’s an opportunity to gain experience in their field of study. Nathan DeLong, a second-year student majoring in journalism, will be spending his summer interning with the Bugle Observer, his hometown newspaper, for the third consecutive year. He began [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Mysterious East started as a joke. When Russ Hunt, now a professor emeritus of English at St. Thomas University, moved to Fredericton in 1969, he was surprised by the low of quality of journalism. He turned to his colleague, now journalist Silver Donald Cameron. “Both of us looked at the journalism going on in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For many millennials, the thought of anime brings back childhood memories of watching Pokemon, Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z on YTV or Teletoon. They’re lumped in the back of our minds with Power Rangers, SpongeBob and other after-school favorites. But ask any anime fan and they’ll tell you it’s much more than that. “There’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Canada is forgetting what it means to be Canadian, said St. Thomas University religious professor Alexandra Bain. For a country that is officially multicultural, with 20 per cent of its population a visible minority, with 200 languages spoken just in Toronto and a country that prides itself on being welcoming to anyone and everyone – [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sarah Doucet is a third year St. Thomas University student who suffers from Cystic Fibrosis and is allergic to perfume. Depending on the scent, she gets out of breath and is not able to concentrate in class or perform any other activity. “It can be anything from laundry detergent to perfume, scent shampoo or cigarette [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As Nathan Schneider describes in the introduction to his book, God In Proof, the word “proof” can seem intimidating, unlikely, or even demeaning—especially when put next to the word “God.” By the end of the book, after following Schneider through a carefully constructed museum of thinkers with windows into his own journey of finding God, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hamlet: the pinnacle of Shakespeare, the right of passage for any serious actor, spokesperson of the high arts, the Dane, the great dane! He’s one of the better things to come from Denmark after fine butter and Metallica’s drummer. Lo’, when it comes to iconic fictional characters, you can’t do much better. But why is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When I was 12 years old, I wanted to play with everything. I took my dad’s DSLR camera and went on an exchange to Denmark. I thought it was just a toy. But when I started uploading my first set of photos into my computer, I could see the beauty on my screen. Through the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sylvia Hale did her BA, Masters and PhD all in a row. By the time she was done school, it was 1975. She was 30 years old and she came right to St. Thomas University to teach sociology. Now, after 40 years, three terms served as chair of the department, a couple 600-page textbooks with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Early this past December I was just outside Fredericton city limits at Sunset Heights Meadery talking with owner John Way about the fact that he was the sole dedicated meadery in the province. In the second floor of his garage I found myself in a room similar to many I’ve been in before with my [&hellip;]</p>