My guest today is Amanda Munday, the Executive Director of New Majority. Their mission is to “activate young and first-time voters, ensuring [their] voice is heard where it counts”.
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For the last play of the season, Theatre UNB is staging a production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. Joining me is John Ball (director; professor & acting Chair of the Department of English at UNB), Shannon Munn (actor: “Mrs. Cheveley”) and James Gwathmey (actor: “Sir Robert Chiltern”).
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Hosts Fernanda Sanchez and Caleb Desjardins look at the upcoming federal election through the lens of young people suffering from information and disinformation overload.
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The 61st New Brunswick Legislative session kicked off this week.
Highlights from the throne speech include 10,000$ retentions payments for nurses, the implementation of a 3% rent cap effective February first, the removal of the provinces carbon adjuster on the price of gas and a 10% rebate on electricity bills.
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Recapping Local Fredericton News from November 4th – 8th, 2024
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New Brunswick political history was made official with the swearing in of Susan Holt as the first woman to hold the position of premier this weekend. Holt was visibly emotional during the ceremony, especially so when swearing in the five women who will work in her 19-person cabinet. The new premier invited dozens of women
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My guest today is Janie Moyen, the Bilingual National Organizer for New Majority, a non-partisan group seeking to encourage younger voters to get to the polls.
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New Brunswick provincial political leaders, Premier Blaine Higgs (Progressive Conservatives), Susan Holt (Liberals) and David Coon (Greens) made their cases to Fredericton City Council on Monday ahead of next months election. The leaders had 15 minutes each to address the capital regions concerns, followed by a number of questions from council members, and how those
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My guests today are Liz Rowley, Leader of the Communist Party of Canada, and Ivan Byard, the General Secretary of the Young Communist League.
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Is the honeymoon over between international students and Canada? On today’s STU Lunch Box, hosts Katherine Del Salto and June Horvath talk to students, recruiters and housing advocates about what needs to be done to ensure that Canada and Fredericton remain a magnet for multiculturalism.
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“Reading” Blaine Higgs Reading someone is drag queen slang for pointing out someone’s flaws. And this week’s show, hosted and produced by Erin Hurley and Jasmin LaPointe, gets the lowdown on the premier from everyone from drag performers like Amore Love and Justin Toodeep to politicians like Susan Holt, David Coon, and Dominic Cardy. Music Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More
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On the show this week: $pace; Out Think It Through; Behave Like Animals; Play time; Extras; CQ: Do we need semantic units like inches and feet or rational units like meters — or both? Full list of 20 articles after the jump!
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My guest today is Jessie Taylor of Reproductive Justice NB, to talk about the Naught-Aversary. Music today by Stone Iris, Dylan Menzie and The Sole Pursuit.
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Today we talk to Aaron Ellis and Alex Pannier, two students starring in the Theatre UNB production of Slavs! by Tony Kushner. Music today by Glory Glory, Derrival and Earthbound Trio.
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On the show this week: Front Page; Involution; In Your Head; Extras; CQ: Should convicted criminals with life sentences or death sentences be allowed to serve instead as space explorers — and is that a more or less humane option? Full list of 20 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Front Page Things of Internet Winter is Coming CQ: Science fiction often projects this, but: should humanity have one, unified, consistent world government, and what could that look like? Promo: The Flash Pulp Podcast (http://flashpulp.com) – An incredible series of pulp-style stories told over a multiverse of styles and often […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Thrill or Be Killed Things Done For Love or Money Season’s Creepings Science Diction Extras CQ: Does so-called “empty entertainment” have value? Full list of 43 articles after the jump! Front Page: Sounds like a raw deal to me..: Zeenews India – Ebola hit US journalist deemed Buddhist […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Don’t Mean To Pry, Mate The Digital Analogue Extras CQ: Which will come first: world peace, or interstellar space travel? Is one necessary for the other? Full list of 31 articles after the jump! Front Page: “To all the losers, and especially the winners: better luck next time!”: […]
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As a collection of people, we seek to build systems of rules and government to make it more clear how we should get along with each other, in the fairest and most equitable way we can. Sometimes, those rules can get embedded for a long time, and it starts to feel like they are unchangeable,
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Ward 10 Candidate and Academic Advisor at STU, Owen Marshall dropped by to talk about his career, his background, and just a little about his plans for the city and for politics. Also, Bobby Ogilvie drops by to present a quick summary of his time at the Woodsmen Competition hosted this time by UNB in
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On the show this week: Front Page; Science Friction; Mistaken Hide Entity; Extras; CQ: What impact, if any, would you think that the confirmed discovery of Bigfoot, alien beings or perpetual motion devices have on everyday life?
