Conciliation ends at StFX, possibility of a strike looms

News
Feb 4
By Devanne O'Brien

The second round of conciliation talks between the StFX Association of University Teachers and the university administration broke down at 4:30 a.m. on Friday, January 29. According to representatives from StFXAUT, talks broke down after the administration tabled a ‘final offer’ that was seen as inadequate by the union’s negotiators. Current president of the union, Dr David Lynes, confirms that the issue of wage parity continues to be the most contentious sticking point in the negotiations. One particular group of...

StFX student survives, saves lives during bus crash in Monastery

News
Feb 4
By Kristen Stallard

On Saturday, January 23, third year StFX music student Steve Wilton missed the bus. Expecting to travel home for the weekend to New Waterford, Cape Breton, Wilton opted instead for the next scheduled passage at 5:30 p.m. It was a fateful decision that Wilton says he does not regret making. Shortly after departing from Bloomfield Centre’s Acadian Lines terminal, the...

Office break-ins on StFX campus

Psychology professor has laptop, wallet stolen

News
Feb 4
By Devanne O'Brien

The offices of two StFX professors were broken into on Friday, January 22. Dr Yvon Grenier, a political science professor whose office is located on the seventh floor of Nicholson Tower, says that he arrived at work to find his door handle broken, but nothing was missing from the room. Dr Jennifer Sullivan, however, was not so lucky. The psychology professor whose office is in the Annex says that she returned to her office after a StFXAUT meeting on January...

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    Andrew Lauzon

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