Strike update as of Tuesday, Feb. 4 Just hours before the Mount Allison Faculty Association’s declared strike deadline, the University’s director of marketing and communications, Robert Hiscock, sent an email out to students cancelling classes for the following day. That was Sunday, Feb. 2. As of Monday, Feb. 3, MAFA was on strike. On Feb. […]
Professors from a range of disciplines may bring the practice into our first new program in over a decade Last October, professor of Hispanic studies in the modern languages, literatures and cultures department Lauren Beck called a meeting of “everybody who [she] thought did research in and/or taught visual and material culture,” and “told them […]
Elections were last week – but what is MASU? In light of the newly elected Mount Allison Student Union (MASU) executive, the Argosy thought we would publish a short primer on the structure of the student organization they’ve been elected to. The MASU constitution (accessible to all on their website) states the organization’s objectives as […]
Speaker Robyn Maynard gives educational talk on how Canadians have been trained out of outrage and the government has systematically diminished the value of Black lives in the public eye The first President’s Speaker Series speaker of 2019 was Robyn Maynard, a self-described “Black feminist writer, activist and educator.” Maynard’s writing has been published in […]
Group asks for president Boudreau’s stance on Divest MTA, divestment on the investment committee agenda and an opportunity to present concerns to the Board of Regents On the morning of Nov. 5, ten members of Divest MTA sat in the MASU conference room waiting for their first meeting with the new university president. President Boudreau […]
University aware of graffiti, says, “No disclosure of sexual misconduct has been reported by a survivor,” but that they are monitoring the situation In August of this year, someone wrote a former Mount Allison professor’s name on a bathroom wall with the implication that he was equivalent to Harvey Weinstein – the major film producer […]
First Green caucus and two parties looking to form government complicate the next few months in Fredericton Following last week’s recounts, the outcome of the Sept. 24 provincial election remains the same: 22 Progressive Conservative seats, 21 Liberal and 3 seats each for the People’s Alliance and the Greens. Green party candidate Megan Mitton’s 11-vote […]
Green party candidate Megan Mitton also ran in Memramcook-Tantramar’s 2014 election, against Boudreau and LeBlanc. Mitton is a Sackville native who returned to Sackville after studying international development, political science and women’s studies at McGill University in Montreal. Since then, Mitton has been working and volunteering in the non-profit sector, and in 2016 she was […]
Liberal incumbent Bernard LeBlanc has been the MLA for Memramcook-Tantramar for as long as it has been a constituency. In 2006, when Dieppe-Memramcook, Shediac-Cap-Pelé and Moncton Crescent were all combined into one riding, LeBlanc was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in that year’s provincial election. However, LeBlanc’s public service did not begin […]
Hélène Boudreau is another candidate who has devoted their life to public service. Boudreau was elected as a municipal councillor for the City of Dieppe from 2008 to 2012. She ran for mayor of Dieppe in 2012 and represented the NDP in Memramcook-Tantramar during the 2014 New Brunswick election. That same year, she received the […]