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<p>My favorite zombie mention of all time was in The Mummy, when one of the actors faked being a zombie so that he could move around in the crowd. So there&#8217;s something comforting about being surrounded on all sides by a groaning, moaning, bloodied mass. This Saturday marked the sixth Fredericton Zombiewalk and Food Drive, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The first day I cried was that Saturday. After 16 years, my team was going to the quarterfinals in the biggest soccer event on earth, the World Cup. The sports announcer was almost crying of happiness, saying “GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL, scored from a country called Colombia, a crack shot named James Rodriguez, he gave us a painting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reproductive Justice New Brunswick is pushing for abortion to be taken as a serious election issue this campaign season. Since the group&#8217;s formation in April it has been a part of their mandate. Kathleen Pye, chair of the pro-choice group, said while the July 31 closure of the private Morgentaler Clinic in Fredericton came as a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Canadian justice system has changed a lot over the last century. We saw a shift from a penal model to a welfare model, which is traditionally under Liberal governments and focuses on rehabilitation instead of punishment, back towards a penal model of justice under the Harper government. Last week, the Harper Government proposed a Bill [&hellip;]</p>

<p>From the outgoing This is it, last one. Maybe happier than I should be, but it has been a long road. From the Aquinian staff, I would like to say it has been a slice. But I can’t, not always. It has been both a pleasure and a pain in the ass. But that’s why [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Attending STU&#8217;s town hall budget meeting was pointless, even when compared to its dreadful inauguration last year. “We&#8217;ll have to make, and have already made, some very difficult and unpopular decisions,” said President Dawn Russell near the outset. That&#8217;s the theme of these meetings, I think. The President&#8217;s Advisory Committee on Budget asked in advance [&hellip;]</p>

<p>India may be the second largest state in population size, but it&#8217;s the largest democracy in the world. India became independent in 1947, electing its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru is the founder of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, including his daughter, Indira Gandhi, the third prime minister of India, and grandfather to Rajiv Gandhi, the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some of you may be pleased to note this is my last column. For me, it has been a pleasure. This past year I received unexpected but appreciated feedback on one or two of my rants and I am hoping that an old gal’s long-view may have been enlightening for some. I&#8217;m aware, however, that most [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Pauline Marois is a terrorist to traditional Canadian values. A bold statement for sure but one that is not completely unfounded. In the whole debacle that is the Quebec Charter of Secular Values, Pauline Marois and the governing PQ party have called for an election. One question is no doubt in the back of many Canadian minds: Is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Stress is something that builds on itself. Missing a paper means spending nights without sleep doing that paper. Sleepless nights kill productivity, which lead to more missed papers and sleepless nights. A normal week becomes a struggle just to get past the next day. The stress piles up until it consumes everything. It&#8217;s so overwhelming [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amnesty International is a worldwide human rights organization dedicated to protecting individuals whose rights have been violated. Their work includes lobbying for the release of prisoners of conscience and changing discriminatory laws, among others. They recruit volunteers to engage in e-activism, fundraising efforts and letter-writing campaigns. One of the reasons they&#8217;ve been successful is because [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If anyone had said a few years ago that I would be writing a column about sexually transmitted disease and safe sex practices for twenty-something readers, I would have questioned their sanity. My own thirty-something kids would have laughed out loud. But that is just what I am about to do, because this particular STD [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The ongoing ‘crisis��� in Ukraine and Crimea is in part caused by Russia, Ukraine’s new government and the West. The reason for the placement of Russian forces in Crimea comes from overthrow of the pro-Russian government of former Ukrainian President Yanukovich. Yanukovich was somewhat legally and illegally ousted from the presidency after he refused to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>STU’s graduation dinner last Friday night ended the first day of formal good-byes to the class of 2014. In a packed house at the Forest Hill Conference Centre the almost alumni gathered, most dressed a notch or two above the required “business attire” — testimony to the air of celebration we all felt. In the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Rarely do we see political gambles on the scale Justin Trudeau has taken since becoming leader of the Liberal Party. Within his short time as leader we can concretely say two things: First, he wants to legalize marijuana in some way. Second, he&#8217;s serious about reforming the infamous Canadian Senate. Since becoming prime minister in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I am writing to clarify some issues surrounding the New Brunswick Media Co-op and the recent event held at St. Thomas University, which has been reported in these pages and in the student media. I also want to comment on the subsequent criticism of the way our students reported the event. First, to tell the short version of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I am writing in my capacity as a member of the editorial board of the NB Media Co-op, which held an event at St. Thomas on Feb. 3 concerning a column that ran Feb. 11. The column chided organizers and participants for being &#8220;immature.&#8221; This is quite surprising and disappointing to me as an organizer. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The NB Media Co-op held a talk last week in Kinsella auditorium on the shale gas resistance. I’m sympathetic to the cause, so I decided to attend. What happened at the talk left me feeling confused, guilty and frustrated. As an aspiring journalist and activist I felt that talk had some solid content but an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>To whom it may concern at the AQ, I was disappointed while reading the Aquinian’s coverage of the strike in this week’s piece, “Week three: the students are fed up.&#8221; I started reading the piece thinking there would be fair coverage of the protests from the morning of Jan. 24. I was under the impression [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In one of our first classes last semester, in a “get to know you” exercise, the professor asked each of us what kind of work we were aspiring to after graduation. Some were determined to improve the environment, some wanted to work and travel, some dreamed of interviewing famous entertainers or sports figures, and some [&hellip;]</p>