We all hear the topic of climate change being brought up. Many people may watch documentaries, a few may read articles, but what about those who peacock around, proudly denying climate change as if it is nothing but a foolish fairy tale? The Brunswickan reached out to professor Gary L Bowden to see what he …
This week, we interviewed Dr. Wladislaw Cichocki, a UNB professor of French and Linguistics, about the Acadian dialect (known to linguists as a ‘variety’), its history, and its infamy with a distinct generational divide: Chiac or Chiaque. “Chiac has been here for quite a while, from what I can gather,” Dr. Cichocki said. “It came …
Many students are familiar with the concept of online learning by now, as it’s been nearly two years since the COVID-19 pandemic turned our world upside down. School staff and frontline workers have worked tirelessly to adapt to the chaos and to continue to safely educate and care for their students, often putting themselves at …
Commuters across New Brunswick have watched gas prices steadily climb this season, hitting a high of $147.2 on October 21. Prices dipped momentarily by 1.4 cents per litre for motorists when The Energy and Utilities Board made their weekly price adjustment overnight at midnight on October 27, as fuel prices are reset every Wednesday night …
By: Quintina Northrup A beloved UNB publication turns 25 this year. After 25 years, 43 issues, and hundreds of contributors, Qwerty Magazine has earned its claim to fame. The UNB magazine is volunteer-based and run by graduate students from UNB’s English department. Qwerty has prided themselves on their aesthetic magazines and has recently begun publishing …
Nursing homes and long-term care facilities have been battling with an intense fourth wave of COVID-19 across New Brunswick. On September 22, the PROMT (Provincial Rapid Outbreak Management Team) was issued by the government to look after 15 nursing homes located within zones under circuit breaker restrictions. Nearly a month later, the Department of Health …
Professor Carmen Poulin is one half of a research effort examining the ways in which marginalized people experience challenges in the workplace. She and Dr. Lynne Gouliquer of Laurentian University created “P-SEC”: the Psycho-Social Ethnography of the Commonplace. This methodology inspects the plights of marginalized individuals to propose policy changes that integrate their needs into …
On Wednesday, November 10, Fredericton’s favourite up-and-coming comedy collective, The Labour Union, performed a show for an enthusiastic full house at The Cap. Between laughs and wiping the beer foam off of your upper lip, you and your friends surely asked yourselves: who are these funny guys, anyway? So, who the heck is The Labour …
“We are current, incoming, and former UNB students of the Psychology program. We would like to advocate strongly for the approval of the Biology-Psychology program on our Fredericton campus.” So opens a letter addressed to President Mazerolle from 41 UNB-Fredericton Psychology students. The letter comes in response to the lack of transparency surrounding the program’s …
Send any questions regarding school, university culture, or life in general to dearsharkie@thebruns.ca for a chance to gain really bad advice from everyone’s favourite red herring. Disclaimer: Please don’t actually follow this advice. Dear Sharkie, What’s the best way to resolve a conflict at work? I work at the puppet factory on Queen Street and …
