New Brunswick Finance Minister René Legacy presented the provincial budget on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ron Ward) New Brunswick’s record deficit is prompting changes to post-secondary education as the province freezes funding to universities, colleges and directs institutions to find internal savings that won’t be passed on to students. The 2026-27 provincial budget forecasts a $1.3 billion deficit, mainly due to increased health care and social ser

Matt Dinan, a Great Books professor at St. Thomas University, presents a lecture on artificial intelligence and the future of liberal arts education as part of the STU Public Lecture Series on Jan. 14. (Brianna Lyttle/The AQ) With users increasingly leaning into AI for help and others frantically running in the opposite direction, the question remains: how will the future of higher education be implicated for St. Thomas University?  This is the question that Matt Dinan,  grea