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<p>You just bought the Santa Claus lingerie with the jingles around the rim. Your room is set in candle light and the smell of ginger cookies lingers in the air. Despite exam stress, it’s time for a fun and relaxing night with your lover. Or so you thought. After a short foreplay, you soon clutch [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At 25, Susan Ehrhardt never expected to be where she is: Living with her mother in Moncton, on social assistance and about to begin her sixth and final round of chemotherapy. Ehrhardt was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the summer. It’s a type of cancer that strikes young adults and hers has hit stage 2A. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; I used buses as my main way of travelling around the continent. My roommate and I once took a tiny bus out of Santiago, in Chile, over the Andes to the Argentinean city of Mendoza. The roads were narrow. I could look out the window and see a drop for thousands of feet. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; “Okay, how are you feeling, hun?” I ask. She slurs something I can’t understand. “Are you going to be sick again?” She looks at me and nods. I sit behind her and gather the loose pieces of hair from around her face. She hurls into the toilet, resting her cheek on the seat causing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sex is all kinds of fun, but it can definitely get boring. I cannot stress enough how important it is to keep sex exciting, and if you want to keep sex hot and exciting you’re going to have to change things up a little bit. This can mean doing any number of things but one [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Christmas is coming and the goose isn’t the only one getting fat. I love the holidays, but I really don’t love the idea of both the turkey and my pants getting stuffed. I’d like to have one New Years resolution list that doesn’t include losing weight, wouldn’t you? So, in order to stay on track [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With exams coming, many students are under stress, but relief is only a helping hand away. St. Thomas University’s message therapist Patrick Carmichael’s hands are not for athletes only. &#8220;Students often don&#8217;t realize the important role massage therapy can play in their university lives. Students have a lot of neck and upper-back tension from sitting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Americans can’t make a decision about their economy. The Greeks are sinking into the Aegean, taking the Euro with them, and Germany won’t toss them a lifesaver. The Middle East seems to be going up in flames. Canada is building more prisons to hold fewer criminals, and climate change, it turns out, is real. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; It’s 10 o’clock on a Friday night. The room is dark and the music, loud. You feel excited and nervous at the same time. There could be shots, drinking games – whatever it takes to get as high as you can as fast as you can. You’re aware of your surroundings, yet there’s a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At the world premiere of part one of the final Twilight installment, Breaking Dawn, fans went crazy for the two leads. They screamed while shoving each other for a glimpse of the faces of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. They were mostly female and had the look of hunger on their faces &#8211; and rightly [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Headache, nausea and aches in every muscle. An intense desire for bacon, caffeine, greasy eggs and toast. “I’m never drinking again.” It’s a vow that most university students have made on a Saturday or Sunday morning and given up the next weekend. Dallas Power and Missy Tompkins decided to quit drinking, and so far, they’re [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Waking up wasn’t that hard. At dawn, the man who sells the pita bread, sweet breads, and buns was all ready outside on the street yelling. His cart was waiting for customers who were eager to get fresh bread for their families. If his yelling didn’t wake me up, a cup of well-brewed Arabic coffee [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When it comes to extreme couponing, no one messes with Jai Russell when she does her seven-hour shopping day around Fredericton – least of all her husband. “He stopped going with me. I’m a little frantic: don’t mess with my system, don’t get in my way, don’t screw it up; it’s like the show, you [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was called “Marshall’s Corner,” a section of bleachers in the home rink of the Brookfield Midget AAA hockey team, and it was Justin Marshall’s territory. When teams came to visit, he made sure they wouldn’t have an easy time. He heckled players about their skills and their mothers. He was the seventh man. He’d [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s the cellphone charger that Sylvie Surette remembers most vividly. She discovered the body on Oct. 30, 2010 and left social work two months later. “I came in at 4 p.m. for the shift change. She hadn’t been talking much, but they weren’t worried about her. Teenage girls didn’t have a tendency to talk much [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was a diversity lecture taking place during training week for the house committees of St. Thomas University. The lecturer had us stand up, and take part in an activity where we were to take a step forward if the statement applied to us, and to take a step back if it didn’t. The first [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Palms sweating, muscles tense, heads turning from left to right suspiciously. Sticker tag has begun. “The game hadn’t even started yet – it was the night before the game even started and my roommate, Val, and I screamed every time someone knocked on our door,” said Jacqueline Gallant. She thought it was just going to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Confidence is sexy. I’m sure you’ve all heard that many times, but how many of you actually listen? I know it’s not exactly easy to be confident, especially at this point in our lives. For most people confidence comes after graduation and with age. But I say, why wait? A lot of things factor into [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; This weekend, I got a serious chocolate craving. I wanted a big piece of delicious chocolate cake and I remembered a recipe I made for my dad for Father’s Day. This cake is incredible &#8211; and I’m not exaggerating. It’s chocolatey, moist and sweet and totally satisfying. And I&#8217;m not just saying that it’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>University. It’s a new beginning, a fresh start. It’s a chance to leave behind the mistakes you might have made, a chance to reinvent yourself. No one in this new school or town knows your family or your situation or your past. You are free (for a while at least). So you go and pick [&hellip;]</p>