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<p>Céline Sterckel, a first-year St. Thomas University student from Moncton, was one of the 89 people recognized by the program Stepping up for my New Brunswick, which was created by the provincial government in July to recognize exemplary acts of service during COVID-19. “I felt really humble,” she said. In May 2020, Sterckel helped fundraise [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sydona Chandon, a St. Thomas University advocate for Black and international students, was named International Student Champion by the New Brunswick Multicultural Council. Chandon, a 22-year old student from Jamaica, said receiving this award during Black History Month makes her think of the Black icons that are highlighted throughout February. “I feel like winning this [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A group of around 40 tenants gathered on Zoom last week to speak out against COVID-19 evictions, advocating for a two per cent cap on rent increases and extending the grace period for late rent to 30-days instead of the current seven-day period. On Jan. 29, New Brunswick ACORN held a Virtual Tenant Protest. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Remote learning conversations St. Thomas University Students’ Union vice-president education Megan Cormier said the remote learning conversations are no longer weekly. They will be monthly because of lack of student participation at the weekly ones. Wellness week St. Thomas University Students’ Union vice-president student life Kyle McNally said there will be wellness week from Feb. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Leanne Hudson, a St. Thomas University Mi’kmaw student, said New Brunswick needed educational resources because Indigenous history isn’t being taught enough in school curriculums — so she created her own. “You&#8217;re not seeing all these pieces of history fully developed or talked about,” said Hudson, who belongs to Acadia First Nation in Nova Scotia. “I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is part two of a three-part series about the Mi&#8217;kmaq fishing dispute. Read part one here.  In September and through October of 2020, the Sipekne’katik First Nation and the Potlotek First Nation placed lobster traps in bays at the opposite ends of Nova Scotia. Each community had developed a management plan based on their [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The United States is more than two weeks into the Joe Biden presidency and scholars are already dissecting the previous administration over Zoom. The Canada Research Chair in Global and International Studies and St. Thomas University’s political science department hosted a panel of historians and political scientists to discuss the political climate in the U.S [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Black Lives Matter Fredericton established a new set of bursaries for Black students attending St. Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick who are in financial need. The Mary Louise McCarthy-Brandt Bursaries, valued at $500 per student, will be available at STU and UNB for the next 10 years starting next academic year. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With most of the province in the orange phase of the COVID-19 recovery plan, Dr. Jennifer Russell urged New Brunswickers to download the COVID Alert app in a briefing on Jan. 29. David Shipley, chief executive officer and co-founder of Beauceron Security Inc., a company that specializes in cybersecurity, said there isn&#8217;t anything to be [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mental health committee St. Thomas University Students’ Union vice-president student life Kyle McNally said the mental health committee will have its first meeting on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. STUSU giveaway St. Thomas University Students’ Union vice-president student life Kyle McNally said he posted the first giveaway of the semester for STUSU. There is a first [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jenica Atwin, Fredericton member of Parliament, was sitting in the living room with her husband and son when she learned that she won the Rising Star award for Maclean&#8217;s Magazine&#8217;s 2020 Parliamentarians of the Year. Atwin won her seat in the 2019 federal election when she beat out Liberal Matt DeCourcey. She said when people [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is part one of a three part series on the fishery dispute in Mi&#8217;kmaq territory, particularly the Sipekne&#8217;katik First Nation.  Let’s first respectfully acknowledge that St. Thomas University and The Aquinian are situated on the traditional, unceded territory of the Maliseet/Wolastoqiyik Peoples. A disclaimer to readers — I am a cisgender, white man with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University&#8217;s Vanier Hall residence will open its doors in August after 15 months of renovations. Philip Cliff, director of facilities, has been at the forefront of the operation. He said the building will look similar to Harrington Hall, which was also renovated during a 15-month period between 2016 and 2017. “It will look [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With the bursting of the Atlantic bubble in late November, many students were forced to decide whether to go home for the holidays and isolate, or forego seeing family. Students returning to New Brunswick must isolate for 14 days upon re-entry. Victoria Young, a third-year political science student at St. Thomas University, returned to her [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Correction: An earlier version of this story indicated that Sheryl Ferris was evicted from her past apartment. In fact, Ferris was just not allowed to resign her lease. The Aquinian received inaccurate information for this story initially. We regret this error. As full-time students who rely on student loan and EI payments, Sheryl Ferris doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After going home to Nova Scotia for the winter break, Caroline Jonah, a fourth-year St. Thomas University student, said she and her roommate were confused because nobody was at the Aulac border when they drove from N.S. into New Brunswick. She said they were asked a lot of questions when they returned to N.S. after [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With COVID-19 cases rising across New Brunswick and the recent outbreak in Edmundston, three more zones moved to the red-phase of the pandemic recovery plan and Zone 4 moved into lockdown. Dr. Jennifer Russell, the chief medical officer of health, made the announcement on Jan. 19 during a COVID-19 briefing. She said the Fredericton, Moncton [&hellip;]</p>

<p>UPDATE: On Feb. 1, Jeffrey Carleton, associate vice-president communications at St. Thomas University, contacted The Aquinian to say that President Dawn Russell misspoke at the public Senate meeting on Jan. 21. Carleton said Russell misspoke when she said Premier Blaine Higgs was present at the meeting on Dec. 1. In fact, according to Carleton, he [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today will be a day that goes down in history. Any inauguration stays in the history books, but this one is different. Donald Trump is not attending the inauguration, nor did he welcome Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, to the White House, as is customary. Still, Mike Pence did attend the inauguration. COVID-19 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After announcing 31 new cases of COVID-19 throughout New Brunswick on Tuesday, Dr. Jennifer Russell, the province’s chief medical officer of health, said the Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton regions would revert to the red phase of the province’s COVID-19 recovery plan at midnight on Wednesday.  The move means businesses like entertainment centres, gyms, salons [&hellip;]</p>