Op-Ed: Importing flavour – The growth of Toronto’s food scene in Saint John
Saint John’s food scene has been traditionally dominated by a handful of familiar chains and family businesses. With an increase in population, the market is changing to accommodate our city’s new faces.
So, what do the owners of one of the new chains here in...
Op-Ed: A conversation about Bell Let’s Talk Day
Bell Let’s Talk Day has once again come and passed, and while the original mental health
initiative was started in September 2010, the campaign was launched by Bell as a mental health initiative; 13 years later, does this hashtag still hold value or has corporate advertising overshadowed...
Op-Ed: Why you should study abroad with UNB
Everyone has had those panicked airport moments when the crowd is rushing around you, trying to get to their gate, whizzing past you to get through security, and it seems like, at that moment, everything is moving at quadruple the speed it should be.
No?...
Us, them, or we?
What is a border? You know what I mean, that weird line on the map the denotes the place where one country, or province, or county, or town, ends and another begins.
It’s a simple concept. One that hardly ever gets a second thought. After...
Op-Ed: Brazil riots indicative of new global trend in democracy
Civil disobedience and political protests are staple aspects of democracy.
They are methods in which individuals can express their dissatisfaction with the current state of public affairs peacefully. Despite peaceful alternatives, the media has been filled with images of violent rioting and the storming of political...
Op-Ed: What Martin Luther King Jr. day means to me
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”-Martin Luther King Jr.
January 16 is a day that we not only remember a brave man, but we...
OP-ED: Misinformation on social media and how to avoid it
Social media has greatly changed the way in which information is spread.
Many social media platforms thrive off of the spread of false information since it causes people to interact with their respective apps, which is important to keep in mind when scrolling through...
Op-Ed: A reflection on living abroad
The following article was submitted in partnership with the COM X program which gives students in Communications Studies the opportunity to work as an intern at The Baron.
According to Statistics Canada, there is approximately 3 - 5.5 million Canadians living abroad at any given...
Op-Ed: Is private healthcare the solution?
On November 7, 2022, the New Brunswick Health Coalition organised a rally in front of Health Minister Bruce Fitch’s office to oppose the proposal of more privatised healthcare by Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs.
Higgs Announcement
This came from Higgs announcement on October 24 where the...
Letter to the Editor: SRC President’s response to interview
The following article was submitted to the Editor-in-Chief by Student Representative Council President, Devin Debly in response to the Baron's interview with him that was published last week.
Hello, thank you for accepting and taking the time to acknowledge my response to the article...