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<p>After 27 hours of negotiations this past weekend in Moncton, Acadian Lines could not reach an agreement with its 59 locked out workers. Acadian Lines buses have been off the road since the workers, who are mechanics, maintenance workers, customer service representatives and drivers, were locked out on Dec. 2. It&#8217;s the only form of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Two STU students will be running for election in the Kingsclear First Nation band council on Feb. 27. Both look to use their experience to turn around a community that is struggling financially, and have a strong focus on the quality of life for youth, including encouraging the pursuit of education. Gabe Atwin, a 44-year-old [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elections bring promises. Some are kept, some broken. With three weeks until a new St. Thomas University students’ union executive is elected, it is time to examine the performance of the current executive on their promises before new promises are made. Finances The 2011 spring election had three main issues, all closely tied to money. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Looking back, house president Caitlin Doiron says the alcohol ban at Harrington Hall was about more than drinking. “It wasn&#8217;t about liquor, it was about respect.” When the alcohol ban ended at Harrington two weeks ago, it came with conditions. This included no glass bottles, no drinking in lounges and no guests after moderate quiet [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Every semester the counseling services and the UNB nursing faculty team up to show the women with eating issues on both campuses that they aren’t alone. The support group, called “It’s not about food,” was created in 2008 and is back again this year. It’s put together by Dr. Kathleen Pye, a research assistant for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The latest residence challenge at St. Thomas University has an environmentally friendly twist – water conservation. From Jan. 30 to March 2, students living in the five on-campus residences and the Windsor Street houses are being asked to reduce their water consumption. Kyla Tanner, the St. Thomas University students’ union’s sustainable lifestyles coordinator, originally came [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tara Brinston is changing the world one pledge at a time. The 2006 St. Thomas University graduate is collecting pledges of civic engagement for the month of February. Brinston was selected to be one of eight global youth ambassadors for the month-long Active-8 campaign, run by the Atlantic Council for International Co-operation. “It’s a campaign [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University international students’ association’s chair Maite Cristina says this year’s multicultural fair will be different from last year’s. The fair is on Feb. 25 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Student Union Building. “The multicultural fair’s gonna be a little bit later so it’s past dinner time. So people are just [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Acadian Lines and representatives from its workers&#8217; union are returning to the bargaining table for the first time in two and a half months. The bus lines&#8217; mechanics, maintenance workers, customer service representatives and drivers in New Brunswick and P.E.I. have been locked out since Dec. 2 after rejecting a contract offer, taking buses students [&hellip;]</p>

<p>How a criminal libel case against a controversial  Fredericton blogger and social activist plays out could have an impact on citizen journalism throughout Canada, a St. Thomas University professor says. On Jan. 19, a Westmorland Street home was raided and computer equipment seized in relation to a criminal libel case, Sgt. Tim Durling of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some St. Thomas University students are being introduced to a new way of learning this semester – and it’s all thanks to the touch of a button. ‘Clickers’ are remote controls that allow students to anonymously have their say in a classroom, while allowing professors to translate complicated lecture material in more digestible ways. By [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton university students and professors urged the provincial government not to make cuts to post-secondary education at the budget consultation meeting last week. “The returns on education are phenomenal,” said Joey O’Kane, president of the New Brunswick Student Alliance and vice-president external of the University of New Brunswick student union. “If we want to see [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nesha Bertin has wanted to be a lawyer since she was eight years old. But her dream changed when she became pregnant at 16. “As much as I love my son, it was devastating,” she said. “I didn’t think I would go to school on scholarship, I didn’t think I would finish high school, period, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tim Hortons has introduced a new, even bigger, 24-ounce extra large cup, which will offer even more coffee for all those coffee lovers. But not everyone at St. Thomas University is happy about the change. Because there is a new extra large, the old extra large is now just a large, the old large a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Questions about pedestrian safety at the Montgomery-Windsor street crosswalk have come to light after a woman was struck by a car earlier this month. The 26-year-old woman was hit on the busy street on Jan. 22 at about 6 p.m. by a blue or black Ford Focus. She sustained minor injuries as a result of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Though the Occupy camp in front of city hall has been evicted, its ideas live on in a series of lectures on campus. Jim Gilbert-Walsh of St. Thomas University’s philosophy department presented his lecture The Attack of the Trolls: Occupy, Ideology and Social Media on Jan. 24. Addressing the room of about 42 people, Gilbert-Walsh [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Susan Machum grew up on a farm near Oak Point, N.B., one she felt she would be happy to leave behind. And so she did, travelling, studying and researching. But the farm refused to leave Machum and with each successive experience, she found herself ever more drawn into the serious problems facing the state of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>First-year student Andrew Nice doesn&#8217;t just worry about his grades — but where his next meal comes from too. “When my groceries first got drastically low, I found myself eating three peanut butter sandwiches a day and dry cereal. I started to get sick and had to get something else to eat.” Halfway through first [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It isn’t just the students’ union that’s left in the dark about funding changes to post-secondary education in New Brunswick. The St. Thomas University administration also knows little about the details of the four-year funding agreement that will be part of the upcoming provincial budget expected in late March. Earlier this month, STU students’ union [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If there’s anything Daniel O’Brien has learned over his career, it’s how to be diplomatic. Diplomacy has become O’Brien’s strong suit, given that wherever he goes, he seems to leave having made the organization better. During a 16-year term as president of St. Thomas University, he oversaw a massive campus expansion, adding seven new buildings [&hellip;]</p>