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<p>In Saskatchewan prisons, 98 per cent of women incarcerated are Indigenous, and statistics throughout the country are not far off. Senator Lillian Eva Quan Dyck, Senator Marilou McPhedran and Senator Kim Pate spoke about the state and importance of Indigenous women&#8217;s rights in Canada at the Lodhi Memorial Lecture in Human Rights at St. Thomas University on Jan. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Off-campus representative resigns Marlyne Vanderlee, an off-campus representative for the St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union, resigned. Vanderlee sent in her resignation to be read aloud at the student representative council meeting on Jan. 27. &#8220;Due to a recent opportunity with a job, I will now be working full-time and as such will not be able [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Students at the University of New Brunswick say the current health-care system is not meeting the needs of LGBTQ people and have started planning a campaign advocating for transgender health care in the province. Qmunity, a LGBTQ society on UNB&#8217;s campus, had their first open meeting of the semester on Jan. 21. The student-led group [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Alisha Tucker was scrolling through Facebook when she discovered the new changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program. Tucker, a St. Thomas University student from Brampton, Ont., said she was frustrated to hear about the changes. “The federal [student loans] already starts charging interest as soon as you graduate so it’s mainly just the provincial, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Bright red flags will catch the attention of anyone searching for information on the country-wide general strike sweeping India. About 150-million people are participating in the strike, the largest strike to date, according to The Morning Star, a British publication. Hannah John, a first-year student at St. Thomas University, said the trade union strike isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The article this Letter to the Editor addresses can be read here: &#8220;Prof&#8217;s new book discusses impact of North American retirees living in Ecuador&#8221; It was originally titled &#8220;Prof connects 2008 financial crisis to white supremacy in new book&#8221; &#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;&#82

<p>Shealynne Harnish, a criminology major and single mother at St. Thomas University, was sitting in class on Jan. 8 when she heard students behind her saying she receives &#8216;special treatment.&#8217; Harnish is allowed to have her phone with her in a technology-free class, because her son&#8217;s daycare has to contact her if he has a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A black metal dog cage sits beside Mary Baker’s spare bed in Vanier Hall. It&#8217;s an uncommon sight for a university dorm room, but for Baker, it&#8217;s the beginning of a new companionship. The cage is a play area for her emotional support cat, Luna. Inside rests two silver food bowls, a white blanket and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University has released its new policy on Rules and Etiquette for the J.B. O’Keefe Fitness Centre, two months after facing backlash when a student was told her crop top was distracting by an employee. On Nov. 22, 2018, fourth-year student Mackenzie Parsons was told by a male employee the outfit she was wearing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The University of New Brunswick is considering changing the time of its annual spring break and St. Thomas University might be following suit. Last fall, UNB sent a survey to faculty and students asking their opinion on the timing of the spring break. When asked for the results of the survey, UNB did not respond [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dear St. Thomas University senate, It’s time we have a full and frank discussion about about how you treat The Aquinian at St. Thomas University’s monthly senate meetings. It’s been two years since The Aquinian started covering senate meetings and we’re still being treated like shit. In 2017, then Editor-in-Chief of The Aquinian Hadeel Ibrahim [&hellip;]</p>

<p>About 70 people walked side-by-side across the Westmorland Bridge, hoisting signs reading “RCMP off our Native land,” “We stand with Wet&#8217;suwet&#8217;en” and “This is not reconciliation,” on Jan. 15. The goal of the partial blockade was to slow traffic and raise awareness about the forceful removal of the Gidumt’en blockade on Wet’suwet’en First Nation in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Environmental speaker series The Students for Sustainability club is working on developing an environmental speaker series on campus. They&#8217;re in the process of finding speakers. The club is hoping to organize a sustainability conference for Atlantic post-secondary students to attend in the next school year. Self-defence course Graci Young, St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union first-year [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Grace Taylor, a second-year student at the University of New Brunswick Renaissance College, wishes they had access to LGBTQ-related books when they were younger. Now, they&#8217;re an internal coordinator at The 203 Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, where they&#8217;re organizing a book fundraiser to expand the centre’s LGBTQ library resources. &#8220;One of the things [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Renovations are needed in Vanier Hall, say residents after mice were discovered in several dorm rooms and the fire alarm failed to go off when the kitchen stove caught fire. Mackenzie Acheson, a first-year student who lives in Vanier, said the residence needs to be updated. &#8220;I do think Vanier needs renovations, just considering how old [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Kyra Wilson joined the St. Thomas Emotional Intensity Difficulties program to treat her borderline personality disorder in first semester. For the third-year psychology student, BPD is like having an “emotion third-degree burn.&#8221; Unlike her depression and general anxiety disorder, there is no medication Wilson can take for her BPD. Still, treatment is available in the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Rina Arseneault was at the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre when she received a call telling her she was the recipient of the Governor General&#8217;s Award. “I went blank,&#8221; she said. When the caller asked, “Mrs. Arseneault are you still there?” she asked to have the news repeated. Arseneault received the award after 25 years as the associate [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The author of the book discussed in this article has written a letter to the editor in response to this article. It can be read here: &#8220;Letter to the Editor: Prof responds to article on his new book&#8221; &#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;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;

<p>Amanda Reid Rogers has been named the University of New Brunswick’s Piluwitahasuwin, a position that serves as the assistant vice-president of Indigenous engagement. As a part of UNB’s Truth and Reconciliation strategic action plan, Rogers will be a key figure in implementing other parts of the plan at the university which is situated on unceded [&hellip;]</p>

<p>MacKenzie Parsons was resting between exercises at the J.B. O’Keefe Fitness Centre on Nov. 22 when she was told by a male employee the outfit she was wearing was distracting. He gave her a warning in lieu of a new policy and dress code that he said would be implemented in January 2019. Parsons was [&hellip;]</p>