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<p>Controversy over the Gallant government’s recent legislative decisions continue after budget estimates for the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour were postponed on Friday. Although the Liberals have given no indication as to why the estimates were pushed back one clue may be what happened during the Department of Education estimates. Serge Rousselle, the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Daniel He is a second-year electrical engineering student, but he also has an interest in healthcare – specifically areas that he thinks most people don’t pay enough attention to. He is the chair of FREDTalks, an annual lecture series at UNB that’s focusing on innovations in healthcare this year. The event is set to take [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas released its budget development report because it’s facing an operating budget freeze, declining enrolment and an increasing tuition. The university is asking for public feedback by March 4. “The attached Budget Development Report shares financial information so that our community understands the context for our choices and can participate in identifying solutions to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Roméo Dallaire says Canada’s young people are in position to make Canada a more “activist nation” that can help prevent atrocities and dislocation we’re now seeing across the Middle East and Africa. “I believe that the generation without borders should establish a sort of right of passage from countries like ours that can take a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This year’s Lodhi Memorial Lecture has generated tremendous interest, said Dr. Christina Szurlej, a Human Rights professor at STU and director of the Atlantic Human Rights Centre. The Atlantic Human Rights Centre is excited to welcome Lieutenant-General, the Honorable Roméo Dallaire, former head of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda, on February 18. His [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Most students wouldn’t notice the work St. Thomas University Students’ Union president Megan Thomson is proudest of. It’s behind-the-scenes work. While not finished, she thinks the strategic plan is probably the crown jewel of her time as union president. “Anytime you can grab on to a little institutional memory and keep it for an additional [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A member of St. Thomas’ Catholic community feels the congregation is being excluded from the Great Hall. “[The administration] seems very restrictive in who’s allowed to book the Great Hall, and what sort of event,” said Adam Blanchard, a third-year religious studies student. “It was construed to the chapel community that, for instance, if we [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Roland Chrisjohn is remaining silent on the possibility of a hunger strike until he meets with the faculty union. “[The] meeting keeps being postponed; I won’t be saying anything official until at least the afternoon of Feb. 17,” wrote the Native Studies professor in an email to The Aquinian. Chrisjohn has been contemplating a hunger [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dear St. Thomas University Community, We are 4th year gerontology students at St Thomas, currently enrolled in the advanced seminar class required for our major. Last week our professor, Dr. Linda Caissie, notified us that Mental Health Awareness Day was approaching. She thought it would be valuable for us to join other faculties in raising [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If ISIS is our major threat, then Canada is doing just fine says author Gwynne Dyer Dyer delivered the annual Dominick S. Graham Lecture at the Wu Centre, courtesy of the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society. He spoke, without notes, to a large turnout of approximately 70 people (mostly over the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After a month of uncertainty, Fredericton Transit has come to a tentative agreement with the city. At a meeting on Friday, 85 per cent of union members voted in favour of accepting the city’s terms, avoiding a strike. “After careful consideration, we believe our ridership was more important than leaving them out on the street,” [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University has partnered with NB Power to offer “experiential learning,” said Jeffrey Carleton, communications director at the university. “In a modern liberal arts education, we have to supplement classroom learning with experiential learning,” Carleton said. “It supplements what’s taught in the classroom, but it adds to it the opportunity for the student to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Thursday evenings pro-choice abortion panel at the Ludlow Law building was a call to action for equal access to services in New Brunswick. As part of an English project, the panel was organized by Abbey LeJeune, a Grade 11 student at Fredericton High School and member of Fredericton Youth Feminists. A goal of the event [&hellip;]</p>

<p>While the provincial government did not cut universities’ operating grants, it did freeze them, leaving reactions to last week’s budget mixed. Jeffrey Carleton, director of communications for St. Thomas University, said the university was mostly happy with what they saw come out of budget. “Prior to the budget we had been hearing potential cuts of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The STU food bank is asking for donations of protein and grains following a demanding season. “We appreciate any donations of course, but right now we really need proteins and such. Even if it’s just a can of beans, it helps,” said Brianna Matchett, vice president of the STUSU. Matchett explained the food bank is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Climate change is happening and what we need to do is prepare for the inevitable. That’s the message Blair Feltmate had for attendants to his lecture last Wednesday. “Climate change is real. Climate change has happened, is happening, and will continue to happen.” Feltmate is a professor at the University of Waterloo and the head [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A dispute over a social work course has Native Studies professor Roland Chrisjohn mulling the idea of a hunger strike. “No, I&#8217;m not talking about my fast until I&#8217;m sure myself that it&#8217;s a fast,” said Chrisjohn in an email to The Aquinian. A social media post, made by a colleague of Chrisjohn, surfaced last [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton residents on the north side may have a downtown-like hub in the future since Fredericton’s City Development committee was presented with the Main Street Urban Design plan this week. Trina MacDonald, general manager of Business Fredericton North, has been part of the consultation process that began in 2013. She said Main Street has been [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s that time of year again – When budgets get balanced and tax hikes are proposed. The difference is this year the province is considering raising the Harmonised Sales Tax (HST) from 13 per cent to 15 per cent. This is projected to yield around $300 million annually. “I really see it as being a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>STU’s Mental Health Awareness Week took place alongside Bell Let’s Talk Day. A day dedicated to raising awareness and money for mental health and raised over $6 million. Brianna Matchett, STUSU vice president of student life, thinks instead of talking about the stigma around mental health, they should also focus on the issue of mental [&hellip;]</p>