Joel Rumson

Joel Rumson

Lockdown 3.0 Hurting Gyms and Restaurants

January 14 marked the transition into Level 3 of New Brunswick’s COVID-19 Winter Plan.  While going by a different name this time, it marked the third “lockdown” in the province since the pandemic began in March 2020.  Under the new…

NB COVID-19 Winter Plan and Students

Effective as of December 4 at midnight, all areas in New Brunswick shifted to level one as part of the newly announced COVID-19 Winter Plan. New Brunswick’s Health Minister Dorothy Shephard said on Friday the Winter Action Plan will aid…

From Enslaved to Black Loyalists

Last month, staff and students at UNB’s own Harriet Irving Library released two new sets of Loyalist-era “story maps.” Consisting of twenty biographies in total, the multimedia project details the multifaceted lives of American exiles as they travelled to New…

The Poet Appreciation Page

In early December 2021, around the time when sleep struggles to bid one goodnight, Hien Tran went out for a walk. Night had fallen on the streets of downtown Fredericton and her only guiding source was the city’s ever-loyal traffic…