Archive for November, 2007

Marching to the Legislature

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

On Tuesday, a few dozen people met at the centre of UNBF for another rally, and also a march this time. This was organized by the UNBF Graduate Student Association.

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From UNBF, we marched about for 20 minutes or more to the legislature. It’s a long way!

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Everyone present had lots of spirit!

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Professors and students came from many university campuses. The lady shown here is a professor at STU.

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The blogger, Charles Leblanc, is getting blogged himself. And by the looks of things, I’m covering this story before he is! Haha.

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Some of the Progressive Conservative MLA’s came out offering protestors invitations to the throne speech.

Due to a lack of advertising, the showing wasn’t very strong unfortunately. This is unfortunate, as many people would have come out if they knew about it. I hope there is more advertising for the next rally.

As always, you can find my photos in my gallery.

Fall in Fredericton

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

I’ve been in Fredericton a lot this year, particularly this fall. I didn’t take too many photos, but here are a few that I like.

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This bench caught my eye after leaving the Provincial Legislature following the provincial student rally. It looks so inviting, doesn’t it?!

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I really like this pathway on the UNB Fredericton campus. I took this last month when I was there for a programming competition.

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Such colourful trees!

With rallies and other things happening in the capital city, it’s likely I’ll be back before long!

Close call with moose on highway from Fredericton

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

On the way home from Fredericton last night with other people from UNBSJ, we suddenly saw cars pulled over and someone standing in the middle of the road. As it turns out, there was a moose in the middle of the road that had just been clipped by another vehicle. It was limping along, with it’s two back legs broken.

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It made its way into the ditch, bleeding all over the place as you can see. It was moving around a bit, seemingly whining a bit as well. Luckily, no people were hurt.

It seems that everyone you talk to has a moose encounter along this highway, or knows someone who has. My psychology professor from first year told us in class one night about how he hit a moose with his own vehicle. I’m sure the government had the right intentions when erecting signs every 10 kilometres or so along the stretch. The problem is with education on the issue. The moose never seem to cross next to the  signs!

Demonstration in Fredericton

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

On Tuesday, over 50 people (100 by some counts) braved the cold weather to attend a small rally at the centre of campus in Fredericton. The rally goals were to protest the bad ideas of the PSE report, including campus closures (!), deregulation of tuition, and the downgrading of university senates.

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Many UNBSJ professors, along with 3 of us students, made the trek up to UNBF.

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Mona holds a placard.

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The rally was organized by the Graduate Student Association of UNB.

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The rally was a small gesture to keep the public aware that the post-secondary education issues haven’t been resolved yet, and that we’re still fighting.

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I stand bundled up warmly with two jackets, still trying to display my UNBSJ sweatshirt purchased for the first big rally in Fredericton at the legislature.

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I made the 6 o’clock CTV News, as Mike Cameron interviewed me in Saint John before we left for Fredericton.

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And here I am listening to speakers in Fredericton.

More photos in my gallery.

Peter Newman speaks in Saint John

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

A couple weeks, I had the opportunity to attend Uncensored: The Inside Story of Conrad Black with journalist Peter Newman.

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These are the chairs from Bustin’s that event host Steve Murphy and Peter sat in. Note the conspicuous tags hanging from the sides. Perhaps these were price tags or reminders to actually return the chairs after the night is over!

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Steve asked Peter many specific questions, as he does all the time on TV.

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Peter had a lot of interesting things to say. A lot of it was over my head, as I have never researched Conrad Black much. He opened by telling us that he was asked at the airport if anyone put anything in his luggage “without his knowledge”. Seemingly thinking that airport security has gone too far, he pointed out that the best answer should be… “How the heck would I know?!”.

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The event was held in the UNB Grand Hall uptown, formerly one of the city’s two uptown Scotiabank branches. As James has found, the safe is still intact.

Fall in Saint John

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

I regret that I haven’t updated in a while. (EDIT: I decided not to add more financial analysis for now. Keep checking back, as I will keep blogging as I have time.) Here’s a bunch of photos taken in the past couple months around Saint John. Enjoy!

Rockwood Park Golf Course overlooks Half Moon Lake with trees nearing the end of the their colour change.

Shadows of trees are visible on UNBSJ’s Oland Hall.

Trees line both sides and the middle of King Street East. It’s amazing how much a little bit of greenery can add to a neighbourhood.

King’s Square

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A squirrel crawls along the side of Hazen Hall at UNBSJ. This has to be one of my favourite photos right now.