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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 rules, restaurants and gyms are facing a familiar fate. Gyms are completely closed while restaurants …

The past 60 years have been billed by much of the mainstream as a uniformly progressive march towards the furtherance of human emancipation. In the popular ethos, societal development is often neatly summarized by the following equation: technology + time = freedom. The advent of medical and communication technologies – including DNA testing and sequencing, …

The play Metamorphoses was written by Mary Zimmerman and based on The Myths of Ovid, which are tales of godly intervention. Len Falkenstein directed the performance and the choices in music, set design, and costumery were magnificent.  The story borrowed characters and elements from the Greek mythos, including King Midas, Erysichthon being punished by Hunger, …

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 in reducing the spread of the virus when combined with vaccinations and public health guidelines. …

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 Brunswick in the late 18th century. According to a press release offered by the HIL, …

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 lights, standing immobile and blinking like malnourished Christmas trees. Wind whipped through the frozen air, …

The past week has seen multiple incidents of violence at Fredericton and Oromocto High Schools.  Some events have been confirmed by school officials and police, while others have been embellished by social media posts.  Some parents have removed their children from the classroom over the past two weeks leading to yet another interruption in a …