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<p>The province is consulting about putting a tip differential on the minimum wage. If introduced, it would effectively create two minimum wages: a lower one for tip-collecting workers, like wait staff and bartenders, and a higher one for everyone else. The minimum wage is controversial for David Alward&#8217;s Progressive Conservative government. Last summer, it delayed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Living your faith isn’t the easiest thing to do while at university. There are all kinds of distractions, experiments and experiences waiting at every turn, all the easier to try with the freedom of a new home and community. I’m Catholic. While it’s always been a part of my life, it hasn’t always been something [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When I was a resident in Harrington Hall, every Friday night I’d pour myself a rum and coke, a bowl of chips and wail away on my electric guitar. Believe it or not, my wing rep deemed me “most likely to form a garage band in her dorm room,” cranking the lead riffs to songs [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Peering at a Blackberry, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exclaimed, “Wow! Huh.” This was her unguarded response— before quickly composing herself for the official one—to the news that Muammar Gaddafi, brutal leader of Libya for 42 years, had been killed in his hometown of Sirte. Details of Gaddafi’s Oct. 20 death have been sketchy and vary from the initial claim that he’d been [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A recent survey by Students for Sustainability is giving the university some food for thought. St. Thomas University joined campuses across the country in a survey last month for World Food Day. One hundred STU students answered a set of questions about food issues on and off campus. When asked about local food, 90 per [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University is now offering the chance to watch men’s and women’s hockey from the comfort of your own home. With the set-up of “Tommies TV,” the games are now being streamed live online through the Tommies own ustream channel. “We think that by broadcasting and streaming home games, we can build the profile [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Aquinian staff is trying to raise money to travel to a newspaper conference in Victoria, B.C. this January. You can help out (and enjoy good food, beer and music) by coming to the Cellar Thursday, November 3 at 10:00pm for band night. Performers include Sweden Low, Alyssa Mosher, Thomas Bird and Circle of Mirrors. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I’m an only child and that means living in a small confined space with another human being is almost unthinkable. Reality Check: Living with other people, whether they are complete strangers or your best friends, is at times beyond difficult. My first year of university consisted of strange men in my dorm room during the wee [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; Makedonia Koutsoumpeli&#8217;s story in last week&#8217;s edition of The Aquinian is a compelling account of how ordinary Greeks are reacting to their devastating economic crisis – read it if you haven&#8217;t. But Koutsoumpeli also examined a crucial question: Could what&#8217;s happening in Greece happen here in New Brunswick? The short answer is no, since [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Let me take you back, way back, to a simpler time, a time of MSN Messenger. For most of us, MSN was a place to talk to friends after school without tying up the phone line. It was one of the first popular ways to have a conversation with someone without the pressure of responding [&hellip;]</p>

<p>VANCOUVER (CUP) — “Are you serious?” That was my reaction when editors in the Ubyssey office started buzzing about how we had to make a last-minute change to the paper to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, the just-deceased multi-billionaire former CEO of one of the most profitable corporations in the world. Its only current competitors [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Right now I&#8217;m outside city hall, where Occupy Fredericton is having a general assembly meeting after a day-long protest and an evening march. Fredericton is one of hundreds of cities where people have occupied public spaces in protest of inequality and an economic system that puts the profits of the one per cent ahead of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Oct. 2, Julie Campbell’s daughter escaped from The Moncton Hospital where she’d been admitted following an apparent suicide attempt. The 15-year-old and two other young people overpowered the only nurse on duty in the provincial child/adolescent psychiatric unit and were later found at a nearby McDonald’s restaurant. The teen was returned to the unit and Campbell began [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>My closet at my home in Nova Scotia is still full of my old Barbies, Polly Pockets and Beanie Babies. About six years ago, I crammed myself into that closet, closed the door and tried to close out the world. My dad had just told me he was moving in with his girlfriend. There was something [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When she returned to her homeland this summer, Makedonia Koutsoumpeli saw firsthand what happens when middle-class expectations shatter overnight, and outlines why New Brunswick should see itself in the Greek crisis. Her face is pushed against the shield of a burly armed officer. A chain of riot police officers keeps the crowd away from Parliament [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sarah Bulman, chief returning officer for St. Thomas University students&#8217; union has just released updated election results: A recount was requested by Megan Aiken and took place this evening at five o clock in the STUSU basement office &#8230; There were a few differences. Off-campus Representative Here are the new results: Candidate Number of votes [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The votes have been counted and there are three new off-campus representatives: Colin Belyea, Ella Henry and Sarah Forbes. The full results are below. Only11.9 per cent of STU students voted in the election according to the chief returning officer Sarah Bulman, up from 8.4 per cent last year. </p>

<p>It’s inevitable &#8211; university students are saying good-bye to their beloved educational institutions carrying a heavier burden than ever before. With the average debt level at $37,000 for Atlantic Canadian scholars, it’s no wonder the idea of leaving your alma mater may leave some with a panic attack. Like Tiffany Doucet. She’s a recent graduate [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Life is busy, complicated and hectic, right? Days get filled with school, meetings, work, assignments, relationships, social lives and a thousand things in between. You have demands on you from your boss, your professor, your friends or maybe your significant other. I know where you’re coming from. That’s why, last spring, I started studying etiquette. [&hellip;]</p>