Be informed this Suicide Awareness Month
September is recognized as Suicide Prevention Awareness month in Canada. According to the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention, every day 200 people will attempt to die by suicide, and ten will succeed.
Suicide is currently ranked in Canada as the ninth leading cause of death,...
UNB is rebranding, so why can’t the SRC?
Edited: January 18th at 11:10
At the beginning of the year, the SRC (Students’ Representative Council) executives held a brainstorming session and came up with a set of “pillars” they hope will improve the effectiveness of the Student Representative Council and will serve as a...
Ask the Cook: Locavore Café Review
There is a new food movement spreading across the world and Saint John is jumping on the bandwagon. The locavore movement is all about eating locally sourced and produced foods. Several restaurants in the Saint John area have tried sourcing locally, but none of...
O-Week: A jam-packed campus welcome hosted by the SRC
For the first time since the pandemic hit, the UNB Student Representative Council is welcoming students back to campus with Orientation Week, many events, and plenty of smiles.
Tuesday started early with a campus welcome in the Athletic Center by UNBSJ’s Vice President, Petra Hauf;...
Physical wellbeing at UNBSJ and in the Saint John community
Physical exercise is an all-important component of self-development.
This is especially the case for students who handle courseloads consisting of heavy memorization and critical thinking. It is cardinal for students to be physically active, as this enhances not only their academic abilities but their general...
We are going through changes right now, don’t leave us.
We have been doing the same thing for a long time and our connection has lost its spark.
Don't worry, it's not you, it's us. We know we aren't as attractive as we were when we were younger, that is why we are making...
Saint John joins the “Race to Zero” environmental campaign
This month, the City of Saint John joined the “Race to Zero” environmental campaign.
After the motion was brought up in October by Councillor-at-Large Brent Harris, the pledge to join the environmental campaign was adopted.
Saint John is the second city in Atlantic Canada to join...
How the features of the Industrial Revolution gave rise to mass society, mass media, and mass culture
The Industrial Revolution was a period of technological innovation that swept over Europe and North America in 1750.
It was characterized by more efficient means of production. Though this period mainly affected manufacturing processes, it also had massive cultural and societal implications. People stopped working...
Women’s shelter in dire need of funds
The Coverdale Centre for Women in Saint John is holding a fundraiser to cover the outstanding costs of their 12-unit modular transitional housing project. If they do not reach their goal of $400,000 by March 16, the project will be scrapped.
Centre background
The Coverdale Centre...
Disney Purchases Lucasfilm for $4 billion
In one of the biggest production deals of the last few years, The Walt Disney Company shocked people across the globe. At the end of October it was announced that the company had purchased George Lucas’ production company for a whopping $4 billion in...