Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton is speaking out against the New Brunswick government’s suggestions for cuts to universities and colleges. “I think the idea of privatizing Mount Allison University is just one of the many terrible ideas the Holt government is floating right now when it...

The following is an account of an Iranian student at Western University reflecting on the current protests in Iran and its promises and dangers. The situation in Iran is so dark and stark that it leaves anyone too overwhelmed for sober and comprehensive analysis. It is...

A historian shared painful accounts of childhoods in Halifax during the Second World War at the University of New Brunswick on Feb. 19. The talk, titled “Bitter Tales: Remembering Wartime Childhoods in Halifax, Nova Scotia (1939-1945)," was hosted by the University of New Brunswick’s Department...

It was standing-room-only crowd at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery on Feb. 19 for a talk about a new art project and upcoming event about and for Black families in New Brunswick. First to speak, spoken word poet Thandiwe McCarthy revealed that the Still Here: Preserving...

The longtime head of Amnesty International Canada called for a renewed commitment to universal human rights during a speech in Fredericton this week. "It is time to fully and completely give human rights their turn," Alex Neve told a crowd at St. Thomas University on...

Irving Peterpaul, from Elsipogtog First Nation, 50, has been ice fishing for about 47 years. His mother taught him to ice fish when he was “no bigger than a bucket,” said Peterpaul.  “Just grab a stick on the shore, put the line on, put the...

This report was contributed by Rizek Abdel Jawad, a photojournalist from Gaza City whose work has previously been featured in these pages, documenting life in the shadow of Israel’s genocidal assault on the besieged territory. Inside a shelter within a crowded UNRWA school in Gaza City,...

“When there are many men without decency, there are always others who possess the decency of many men. These are the ones who rebel with terrible force against those who rob the people of their freedom, which is to rob men of their decency. In...