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<p>On June 27, the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) will choose a new leader at their leadership convention in Toronto. This comes after Andrew Scheer, current leader of the CPC announced he would step down as leader after he led his party to an electoral loss to Justin Trudeau, and amid a scandal involving an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Former chief justice of Canada, Beverley McLachlin, considers reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples to be one of the most important processes which Canada is currently engaged in. She said, though it’s difficult, it&#8217;s necessary for moving forward in harmony as a country. “We have our blemishes and our bad spots. But in the end, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Corinne Saunders Hersey has been a sociology professor at St. Thomas University for 17 years. Now she&#8217;s running for mayor of Fredericton. She said Mike O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s time as mayor didn&#8217;t meet her expectations. Running for mayor was something Hersey had considered for a while and after the City of Fredericton budget meeting in December 2019, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union is calling for more accessible language and resources to be included in the revised harassment and discrimination policy. They also provided feedback regarding the policy&#8217;s position on confidentiality, where in case of an assault, under the 2018 version of the policy, the alleged respondant would learn the identity of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Indigenous and non-Indigenous supporters marched in the Fredericton-based solidarity rally on Jan. 29 to show solidarity with Wet&#8217;suwet&#8217;en hereditary chiefs who have been working to stop the Coastal GasLink pipeline from crossing their land. Sis Moqon organized the Fredericton solidarity rally after she noticed the issue was continually coming up in a group she attends [&hellip;]</p>

<p>What started as informal discussions about immigration in Fredericton quickly morphed into the beginnings of a research project when St. Thomas University professor Gül Çalışkan met up with Anthazia Kadir, an educator and writer and Sebastián Salazar, a community and social policy planner with the City of Fredericton. Almost 11 months later, they started a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Funding approvals The Women&#8217;s Centre received $500 in funding. They are not a ratified club or society at St. Thomas University, only recognized and therefore receive no regular funding from the St. Thomas University&#8217;s Students&#8217; Union. They are ratified at the University of New Brunswick but serve the UNB, STU and the New Brunswick Community [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cassidy Wilson, the new campus LGBTQIA2s+ Wellness Coordinator, hopes to make it easier for folks on campus to &#8220;just be themselves.&#8221; “I feel like there&#8217;s a lot that has been done to promote rights for LGBTQ+ folks, but there&#8217;s a lot more that needs to happen. And I can&#8217;t think of something else that I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sobeys is taking a step against single-use plastics by no longer providing plastic bags at checkouts starting January 31. It&#8217;s the first step in a Sobeys green initiative to get rid of unnecessary plastics. Violet Macleod, public affairs specialist for Sobeys, said emails from customers pushed Sobeys to make the change. “We stepped up and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University employment and financial aid coordinator, Trish Murray-Zelmer, wants students to focus on what they can control amid changes to the Student Employment Experience Development (SEED) program. Murray-Zelmer said her office is telling students to get started on their summer job searches. “It may not be the system you want right now. But [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sometimes making films is the only thing that grounds Mi’kmaq filmmaker Kennelin Barlow to reality. He hopes others feel the same way when he shows two of his short films to a Fredericton audience on Jan. 31 as part of St. Thomas University’s first Indigenous Film Festival. “[Films are] the closest I can get to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>STU/UNB trail St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union President Husoni Raymond said he met with UNB Facilities ab out the trail that connects St. Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick to fix the lights and give it a name. He said UNB Facilities will be looking into fixing the lights. Divestment campaign St. Thomas [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Every year, St. Thomas University&#8217;s endowment fund allocates more than $1 million in fossil fuel industry stocks.   STU and most places of higher education tend to teach the science of climate change and the social and economic aspects of environmental degradation. Yet they continue to invest in fossil fuels and profit from these industries. It’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Journalist and writer Linden MacIntyre said everything he’s written or read for more than 50 years is “unavoidably and sometimes deliberately” made-up to some extent. “Any account of any event that has already happened, even if it&#8217;s written by someone who was prior to the event, will be recorded after the fact, and therefore an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Leaving winter formals, a wall of debt campaign and called-for impeachments behind them, the St. Thomas University Students’ Union president, Husoni Raymond, said they have a full schedule of events to fill their and students’ plates in winter 2020. “What we’re looking forward to most is just engaging with students and building meaningful connections between [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University graduate Mandy Richard said educational institutions have a responsibility when it comes to reconciliation. “A big part of it does start in the education system,” she said. Richard is Anishinaabe and Ojibwe, she graduated in 2018 with a major in communications and public policy. During her time at STU, she was an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When St. Thomas University professor Fariba Solati learned she lost a dear friend and colleague in the Iranian plane crash she described it as “the sparkle in our eyes [being] gone forever.” Her friend&#8217;s name, Forough Khadem meant &#8220;sparkle&#8221; or &#8220;brightness&#8221; in Persian, and to Solati, Forough was a bright light in her life, a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>UPDATE: The Fredericton City Council has adopted recommendations made by the Ad Hoc Committee on Gender Diversity. You can read about the adopted recommendations on the City of Fredericton website.  &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Fredericton councillor Kate Rog

<p>The Telegraph-Journal, a provincial newspaper, published an article with the misleading headline &#8220;Province plans to scrap French immersion program&#8221; on Jan. 7. Within hours the headline was changed, and Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Dominic Cardy denied ever speaking about axing the program, but he said he does plan on making changes, starting with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Jan. 8, almost 200 passengers and crew died on UIA Flight PS752, including 57 Canadian citizens and 29 permanent residents. Innocent people are dead because they got caught in a crossfire that could have never happened and had nothing to do with them.  While Iran and the United States have had a tense relationship [&hellip;]</p>