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Jan 26 2012
The Basement Tapes…have become The Basement Files! This week hosted by Bridget Yard and Kyle Douglas with technical and web support by Tyler Lyons. This edition of the Basement Files comes to you from the Kinsella Auditorium on the Saint Thomas University Campus.
Alcohol Ban Lifted At Harrington Hall
St. Thomas University’s Harrington Hall dormitory is no longer dry. A liquor ban imposed in the building in December has been lifted. New regulations have been put in place to control disorderly drinking. Students are both pleased with the ban, and its removal. Tony Peter-Paul has the story. Harrington Hall is known as the [...]
Occupy Speakers Series
St Thomas University and University of New Brunswick professors are teaming up to keep Fredericton’s Occupy movement alive. The Occupy Winter Speakers’ Series will discuss social justice issues affecting the community. Vanessa Cormier has more from the first lecture in the series. Members of the Fredericton community are meeting here at James Dunn Hall each [...]
Norowalk Virus
Student journalists went to the Canadian University Press conference expecting to learn some new journalism techniques. What they weren’t expecting was less than comfortable education on the Norovirus. Aleisha Bosch has more on the story. “Yes, I spoke with Amy MacKenzie, a student journalist at the conference and one of about 150 people who got [...]
NB school districts: Administration and teachers face challenges from amalgamation
Administration employees and teachers are uncertain about what will change after the amalgamation of the school districts in New Brunswick. The government announced two weeks ago its plans to reduce the administration cost, by cutting the districts to half and laying off employees. The plan is to save five million dollars every year that [...]
Charlottetown Teen to Goal-tend in Youth Olympics
The Charlottetown Islanders will be missing their goalie for a little while. Sam Walsh is off to Austria to compete with Canada’s men’s hockey team at the Youth Olympics. Kara Cousins has more on this story. Well, fifteen year-old Sam Walsh has become a household name around Prince Edward Island. I recently visited the [...]
Christmas trees
For some, it takes just a few minutes to find the perfect Christmas tree… and cut it. But for the Young family, it takes even seventeen years… to grow it. Gordon and Carol have spent their married life together at their tree farms in the countryside, north of Fredericton. For mor than forty years [...]
Christmas coffehouse
The weather outside might not have been frightful Thursday night. But there was really no place to go, except to the Saint Thomas University coffee house and tree lighting celebration. Students came out for a good time and a better cause. Tyler Lyons has more on the story. The holiday spirit had come over everyone [...]
Dog park
It’s been a warm winter so far this season but the snow is finally starting to fall and it’s starting to get colder. This has side effects not only on humans but on dogs as well. North side dogs are starting to miss their south side friends who have been increasingly absent from the dog [...]
Tattoos as a gift?
Christmas is around the corner and some people have been looking into unconventional gifts. Gift certificates for tattoos and piercings at White Lotus Tattoo are one such gift. But they may have unexpected repercussions. Samantha Both has the details. For some people the sound of a tattoo gun is exhilarating. It’s a painful experience but [...]