If you are in Fredericton and hoping to enjoy a nice cold glass of tap water, take a shower, or perhaps let your dog take a drink, forget it. Irving now owns the legal rights to Fredericton’s portion of the Wolastoq River. Arthur Irving bought the rights to the city’s water distribution, whether by tap, …
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 …
Swimming across the oceans from Canada’s East Coast to the Caribbean Sea are the Atlantic shortfin mako sharks. They are highly migratory animals that can be found in places such as Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland within the range of Canada alone. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List noted this …
The Saint John Human Development Council (HDC) is a planning council that holds federal funds in trust and distributes them where needed across the Maritimes. They work on reports such as minimum wage and the child poverty card. Cathy Foote is the affordable housing specialist who helps identify social issues in the greater Saint John …
Christmas is everywhere right now and tends to take up a lot of space – both physically and culturally – between the months of November and December. Still, for some, Christmas isn’t about Christianity’s religious holiday at all and is instead focused almost entirely on Santa Claus, gift giving, and feasts that the “cultural Christianity” …
Tyler Boland, Samuel Dove-McFalls, Austen Keating, defenceman Joe Gatenby, goaltender Rylan Parenteau, and coach Gardiner MacDougall of the UNB Reds men's hockey team have been selected to attend the 2021 FISU winter games, and play for Canada’s men's team. Unlike other years, the FISU games do not overlap with regular season games, but they do …
After the departure of the original Vice-President of Finance & Operations, Katelynn Pickel-MacDonald stepped into the interim role effective August 2021. After the November by-election, Pickel-MacDonald was officially elected to the position. In the interim role, she had the full responsibilities but was limited in her planning ability by the uncertainty of being an interim …
See Jane Run is a grassroots organization co-founded by Rothesay Councillor Tiffany Mackay French, Grand Bay-Westfield mayor Brittany Merrifield, and former election campaign communications director Katie Bowden. The organization was founded in early 2021 and aims to encourage women and gender- and sexually-diverse individuals to run in the future municipal elections in New Brunswick. “The …
