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<p>The Government of New Brunswick committed $2 million last month to Food Depot Alimentaire, a non-profit organization based in Moncton, to help purchase healthy food for distribution to food banks and soup kitchens across the province.   Adam Bowie, a communications officer with New Brunswick’s department of health, wrote in an email to The Aquinian the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>STU’s Black Students’ Association (STUBSA) will present an educational social media series for Black History Month to highlight the work and legacy of Black icons, from scholars to athletes.  Pearl Gyamfi, a second-year student from Ghana and STU African student ambassador, said she chose Kimberly Crenshaw as her idol for the campaign due to her [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University announced Wednesday it has selected Nauman Farooqi as its next president and vice-chancellor after almost one year of searching. Farooqi, who currently serves as a professor and dean of business and social science at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., will begin a five-year appointment to the role on July 1. Farooqi’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The federal government’s Public Order Emergency Commission has been investigating the invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the Freedom Convoy in February 2022. After about a year, commissioner Paul Rouleau will release the final report no later than Feb. 20 compiling his findings.  The Aquinian’s news editor, Giuliana Grillo de Lambarri, sat down [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University&#8217;s Students&#8217; Union, in collaboration with university administration, is changing the way valedictorians are nominated and selected. In previous years, valedictorians were elected through the STUSU spring general elections.  But starting with the class of 2023, STU will establish a selection committee made up of various members of administration, senior faculty and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>An award presented in error at St. Thomas University’s monthly Senate meeting on Jan. 19 sparked an equity debate among senators over the school’s large female student population in comparison to its male population. Senate members voted down the McDougall Family Love of the Game Prize and the Hanif Brown Entrance Award because they were [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As inflation and interest rates continue to climb across the country, what does it actually mean and how is it affecting the wallets of students and Canadians as a whole? According to Statistics Canada, the country’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) was at 6.3 per cent in December 2022, a decrease from 6.8 per cent in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A free and open press is one of the crucial bedrocks of a democratic society. The responsibility of journalists is to hold people to account, regardless of whether they are politicians, activists or even health experts. It is a fact that the administration of St. Thomas University probably acknowledges but fails to fully embrace. On [&hellip;]</p>

<p>New Brunswick health officials hope a new intensive care unit at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital will act as a modern workplace that improves treatment access and reduces patient wait times. Health Minister Bruce Fitch participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, joined by Horizon Health Network Trustee Dr. Suzanne Johnston, Interim President and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As a proud Acadian mother, Sandra Kell wants her children to be able to thrive as bilinguals, but New Brunswick’s proposed changes to replace French immersion leads her to feel concerned. “The watering down of our French-speaking population is really going to affect the future of the francophone generations,” she said. Government officials held their [&hellip;]</p>

<p>New election process for valedictorian Alex Nguyen, president of the St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union, said the union, in collaboration with STU, proposed a new election process for the spring convocation valedictorian nomination and selection. The proposed changes include creating a selection committee compromised of senior administration, the president and student representatives. &#8220;We want to ensure [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Large renovations at the University of New Brunswick’s Student Union Building (SUB) could mean a reduction in space for some of the building’s current tenants. Construction plans include relocating the campus bookstore and giving the pharmacy a larger space. While some tenants of the SUB will need to greatly reduce their space, others will lose [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Faculty and staff members at St. Thomas University now have the option to move their pension investments into fossil fuel-free funds. Matt Robinson, a member of the Faculty Association of the University of St. Thomas (FAUST) environment committee, took three weeks out of his six-month sabbatical during the winter semester of 2021 to research whether [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University remains on schedule to elect its new president and vice-chancellor by the spring of this year, according to a university timeline obtained by The Aquinian. Finalists Nauman Farooqi and Ian Sutherland gave public on-campus presentations in early December following an announcement on Nov. 21, 2022, that Dawn Russell, who served as STU’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Note: The president’s report remains in-camera, meaning in private, as per Senate’s Feb. 11, 2021 decision. Because of this, The Aquinian is unable to cover the contents of the president’s report in these briefs.  Gender breakdown of awards, scholarships and bursaries Members of the St. Thomas University Senate engaged in an intense debate over the gender [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Accessibility for parent students Alex Nguyen, president of the St. Thomas University&#8217;s Students&#8217; Union, said STUSU has been discussing accessibility issues for students with children in meetings with Kim Fenwick, STU&#8217;s vice-president of academic and research, and University Registrar Karen Preston. Nguyen said STU only has one bathroom on campus with a changing table, currently [&hellip;]</p>

<p>An intense debate over the gender breakdown of awards, scholarships and bursaries continued Thursday night during St. Thomas University’s monthly senate meeting regarding a pair of proposed awards for male university athletes. Dawne Clarke, who chairs STU’s Admissions and Academic Standing committee, put forward motions for senators to approve the McDougall Family Love of The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A piece of legislation introduced by the leader of the New Brunswick Green Party aims to give workers up to 10 days of paid sick leave. Under the province’s Employment Standards Act, non-unionized employers only provide employees with five days of unpaid leave. According to Statistics Canada, employees in New Brunswick missed 10.2 days of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new lab at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton received funding from the federal government Wednesday, aiming to help small and medium-sized businesses in the aerospace industry. Ginette Petitpas Taylor, the minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), announced an investment of $823,125 toward the Spatial Computing Education, Training and Research [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University will not get the on-campus digital classroom it had promised students for January 2023 due to delays in the supply chain, according to STU’s associate vice president of communications.  After STU ended its lease with the CBC on Dec. 31, the university promised to build a digital media lab that would replace [&hellip;]</p>