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Cover Photo Credit: Christian Dela Cruz On Wednesday November 26, UNB Fredericton’s McConnell Dining Hall hosted their yearly hot wings contest. The McConnell staff randomly selected twelve contestants to compete in six rounds of increasingly spicier wings with sauces that reached the millions in Scoville Heat Units (SHU). The contest challenged contestants to finish sets …

Cover Photo Credit: Rebecca Williams-Simms   On Thursday November 20th, as part of the Fredericton Region Museum’s lecture series, Andy Flanagan delivered a talk on his book The Endless Battle: The Fall of Hong Kong and Canadian POWs in Imperial Japan. Published by Fredericton’s Goose Lane Editions, The Endless Battle is a historical account of World …

Sunday, October 26, 2025, marked the 49th Annual Coaster Derby organized by UNB’s Mechanical Engineering Society. Multiple teams from the across Atlantic region participate, all of whom enter their own gravity-powered cars to hurtle down UNB’s Mackay Drive. According to records from previous years, the derby carts can achieve speeds ranging from 60-90km/hr.    Founded …

You don't own your job; your employer does, making the phrase "my job" an oxymoron. Layoffs illustrate that jobs belong to employers, not employees. In 2025, as layoffs remain prevalent and the economy becomes more unpredictable, job seekers, as if in denial, continue to equate finding a job with finding a permanent home. This mindset …

Volume 158, Issue 5  Joel Rumson My name is Joel Rumson, Editor-in-Chief of the Brunswickan for the 2024 – 2025 Publishing Term. The following is my personal experience with the Brunswickan Publishing Incorporation. 2020 – 2021: I chose my courses two days before classes began (Sept 1, 2020), broken home, online courses, finished with 2.8GPA. …