December news in brief
December news in brief
Canada's Oldest Official Student Publication
Canada's Oldest Official Student Publication
Joel Rumson
Dear Sharkie: Sheila
Dear Sharkie: Sheila
Breakfast for the Exhausted Student
Breakfast for the Exhausted Student
Shamsia Hassani: The First Female Graffiti Artist of Afghanistan
By: Quintina Northrup Women and girls in Afghanistan are in the fight of their lives as their hard-won rights are on the cusp of being lost. The literacy rate for females in Afghanistan is 53%, compared with 79% globally. In…
Student Hunger Month 2021
By: Quintina Northrup On October 5, the Fredericton Community Kitchens hosted the annual Stuff-A-Bus food drive in partnership with Leo Hayes and Fredericton High Schools. All proceeds were donated to Feed the Lions and Kat’s Kitchen. The food drive took…
GNB “Gag Order” on Acknowledging Ancestral Territory
By: Quintina Northrup We recognize and respectfully acknowledge that the operations of the University of New Brunswick’s student publication, The Brunswickan, take place on unsurrendered and unceded traditional territory of the Wolastoqiyik. The territory served by this magazine is covered…
COVID Update: Cases Rising as Rapid Testing Program is Rolled Out in New Brunswick
Recent COVID developments in New Brunswick have brought new restrictions to some areas and prompted changing hospital standards in the province. The active case count continues to hover around 1,000 and the volume of patients admitted to the ICU has…
UNB Sustainability
“UNB Sustainability takes its main goal from the university’s vision for 2030 — to lead sustainability and environmental stewardship across Canadian universities,” says Matt Bishop, Sustainability Engagement & Education Officer for UNB Sustainability. UNB Sustainability is a bi-campus program created…
Séances in the SUB: MeepMop, Chickadees, and the Holy Grail
The Brunswickan’s specialty ghost-fighting task force, the Séances in the SUB team, was once again called into action this October to deal with a rather gruesome situation in the University of New Brunswick Student Union Building when a student complained…
September News Briefs
By: Taylor Chalker New Brunswickers Push for Rapid Covid Tests New Brunswickers are pushing for the availability of rapid testing kits, with rising case numbers and increased waiting times on test results. Currently, a program exists within the provincial government…