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<p>Content Warning: This article has mentions of anti-queer and anti-trans rhetoric.  To Nicki Lyons-MacFarlane, chair of the Imprint Youth Association, Trans Remembrance Day is already an emotional event for the community. But this year’s event was met with an unprecedented incident — unidentified individuals took over their virtual vigil to spread pornographic imagery and shout [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Togetherall, an online peer support mental health service, has partnered with Fredericton’s two universities to complement existing counselling services.  The University of New Brunswick (UNB) and St. Thomas University are allowing their students to use the app, which features an open feed where users can post what they are going through as well as comment [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Class slots and schedules  Philosophy professor Matte Robinson suggested increasing 120-minute slots on Tuesdays and Thursdays due to high demand within his department. Karen Preston, Registrar secretary, said she would circulate the time slots from classes to the senate so that everyone could give suggestions on how to “solve this puzzle.” She said there are [&hellip;]</p>

<p>International relations professor Shaun Narine delivered a lecture on the history and current events between Israel and Palestine on Nov. 15 in Edmund Casey Hall at St. Thomas University. Since the escalation of the conflict on Oct. 7, Narine said he wanted to bring some historical context and insight to the current conflict including the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Update: The Aquinian posted a version on Nov. 20 that included a quote from Ahmik Burneo which could be interpreted as encouraging students to choose Mednow instead of UNB Campus Pharmacy. However, this was not his intended message. The Aquinian has since updated the article to clarify that Burneo meant to say that STUSU does [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Francisco Javier Montaño de Dios came to Canada on April 23, he had one objective — to send money back to his wife and six-year-old son in Mexico.  Now, he said he is stuck in New Brunswick with two other temporary workers who stayed from a group of 80. The company they worked for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>International education week This week marks International Education Week, which celebrates international students in Canada. The union, alongside the international office and the St. Thomas University International Students’ Association, organized events to commemorate the week. Ana Lucía Pavón, the international student representative, noted the lack of involvement from domestic students during the Global Connection Challenge, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Oct. 17, three N.B. advocacy groups joined in front of the legislature in Fredericton to demand an end to poverty, housing insecurity and ableism. The New Brunswick’s Common Front for Social Justice (CFSJ), ACORN and Coalition of Persons with Disabilities (NBCPD) made their demands on the national day of the eradication of poverty and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University Student’s Union (STUSU) fall general election elected six new council representatives on Oct. 27, leaving five positions vacant.  Voting closed Oct. 27 and STUSU announced the election results on social media on Oct. 30. This year&#8217;s election saw an increase in voter turnout, with 13.2 per cent of eligible students casting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Oct. 26, Naiomi Metallic delivered the Chancellor’s Lecture on Indigenous issues at St. Thomas University’s Kinsella Auditorium. After working at a law firm with Mìgmaq clients in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Metallic received her masters and began teaching law courses at the University of Dalhousie Faculty of Law. At Dalhousie, she challenged herself [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Following an escalation of violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict, The Aquinian&#8217;s editor-in-chief Giuliana Grillo de Lambarri asked St. Thomas University professors to explain the current situation and the historical context. What happened on Oct. 7? Hamas, a Sunni militant group, fired thousands of rockets and sent militants to attack and kidnap Israelis in an operation [&hellip;]</p>

<p>From Oct. 16 to 20, the New Brunswick Student Alliance (NBSA) made policy recommendations on behalf of students to provincial and municipal governments for advocacy week. The NBSA hosted meetings with stakeholders such as Members of the Legislative Assembly, city councillors and university administrators to discuss issues facing students. Their key priorities were affordability, international [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Promise of Home project organized the Our Home is Here conference at Fredericton’s Cultural Centre from Oct. 20 to 21.  Gül Çalişkan, leader of the research project, said this event was the third phase of a research project based on the narrative of different groups of immigrants and refugees.  The first phase of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nicki Lyons-MacFarlane, chair of the Imprint Youth Association, had received online hate in the past, but after becoming a critic of New Brunswick&#8217;s policy 713 revision, the hate intensified. From being called &#8220;groomer&#8221; or some variation of it, to their mental health being constantly on blast, Lyons-MacFarlane has seen the worst side of Twitter and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Starting Oct. 16, people six-months or older in New Brunswick were able to get an updated COVID-19 vaccination designed to target the Omnicron subvariant. Ayub Chishti, pharmacist at the University of New Brunswick Campus Pharmacy, said he has been busy administering the vaccine to hundreds of people in the first three days.  “I would say [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last year, St. Thomas University Accessibility Services recognized a need for changing tables for student parents and installed three more on campus. Natalie Carrier, acting manager of Student Accessibility Services, said that the changing tables are now spread across men’s, women’s and gender-neutral bathrooms.  The changing tables are located in Sir James Dunn Hall, Edmund Casey [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Forty-one Canadian diplomats have left India as of Oct. 19, following India’s threat to revoke their diplomatic immunity. This demand stems from the current political tension between Canada and India, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s accusation in September that the Indian government played a part in the murder of prominent Sikh independence activist Hardeep Singh [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Around 30 people met at Fredericton City Hall on Oct. 10 calling for an end to violence in Palestine and Israel following lethal attacks over the weekend. Sunni-Islamic militant group Hamas fired thousands of rockets at Israel and sent militants to kill and kidnap people on Oct. 7, including at the Re&#8217;im Music Festival. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Examining the rising tides of antisemitism in Canada was the title of this year’s Dr. Bernie Vigod Memorial Lecture in Human Rights. The lecture by Michael Levitt, President and CEO of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal, took place at the Kinsella Auditorium on Oct. 4. Levitt spoke to students and faculty about the rise in antisemitism [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Kent Roach spoke about wrongful convictions for this year&#8217;s Endowed Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Kinsella Auditorium on Oct. 10. Roach is a law professor at the University of Toronto and has taught a course on wrongful convictions for over 20 years.  He co-founded the Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions database, which includes [&hellip;]</p>