By: Tony Davis Parking passes are sold at UPEI for $118 but do not guarantee the pass holder a space. (Allison O’Brien) It’s minus thirty. The dead of winter. You have a 10 am class. You barely got out of […]
By: Tony Davis Parking passes are sold at UPEI for $118 but do not guarantee the pass holder a space. (Allison O’Brien) It’s minus thirty. The dead of winter. You have a 10 am class. You barely got out of […]
By: Chelsea Perry Montreal’s Milk & Bone create melodies that are both dreamy and harrowing. (Wonderland Magazine Photo) Two-time Polaris nominee Milk & Bone (Laurence Lafond-Beaulne and Camille Poliquin) dropped Deception Bay back in February, and kids, it will haunt you […]
By: Allison O’Brien Remember that it’s okay to slow down in the winter. (Allison O’Brien) It’s the most wonderful time of the year, right? Not according to the conversations I overheard at the bus stop today, just minutes after UPEI […]
By: Tony Davis Richard Lemm reading excerpts from his latest poetry collection Jeopardy at Receiver Coffee for P.E.I. Writers’ Guild Open Mic Nov. 8. (Tony Davis) Even after teaching advanced writing courses for nearly 25 years, Richard Lemm still gets excited when […]
By: Tony Davis You know how modern medicine has pretty much eliminated a handful of horrible illnesses with vaccines? Immunization is the reason smallpox has been wiped off the planet. Measles and whooping cough have taken a beating, along with diphtheria, an […]
By: Daniel Timen 2019 will mark the 10th year anniversary for the Ted Rogers Management Conference (TRMC), deemed as one of the largest undergraduate business conferences in Canada. It is a 3-day event hosted by the Ted Rogers School of Management in […]
By: Allison O’Brien In Atlantic Canada, several universities such as Dalhousie, Saint Mary’s University, the University of New Brunswick, Acadia, Mount Saint Vincent University, and St. Thomas University have all adopted the Fall Reading Week. The concept isn’t currently being […]
By: Allison O’Brien Bill and Denise Andrew Hall was built in 2005 and received it’s first occupants in 2006. The building houses approximately 167 students every year. (Shelley Ebbett/UPEI) A new 260-bed residence will be coming to UPEI, the government […]
By: Lyndsay Charlton There is a problem in Prince Edward Island that often goes unseen. It may start modestly like waking up at noon to avoid breakfast, and then it turns into missing meals altogether. Food insecurity is something that […]
By: Thomas Becker How do you top a season in which the UPEI Panthers had two all-stars, the Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year? By winning a championship, that’s how. 2017-18 was a memorable season for […]
By: Chelsea Perry Dr. Joseph B. Glass, professor, author and researcher. (Tony Davis) Dr. Joseph B. Glass has a connection to the Jewish community of Pittsburgh. He visited twenty years ago to deliver an interfaith lecture on the cultural and […]
By: Allison O’Brien This past week, while students were busy completing assignments and voting in municipal elections, UPEI’s Campus Kids daycare was hard at work collecting food donations to give to the campus food bank. The Campus Kids daycare filled […]
By: Chelsea Perry On Friday, the Mawi’omi Student Centre hosted their 11th annual Mawi’omi on Campus in McMillan Hall. A “Mawi’omi,†derived from the Mi’kmaq word for “Gatheringâ€, is a time for the Mi’kmaq community to showcase and celebrate the […]
By: Chelsea Perry Exec Reports Emma Drake, Vice President Academic and External, spoke briefly on her recent trip to Egypt with UPEISU President Will McGuigan and President Alaa Abd-El-Aziz. They were visiting the UPEI campus that opened recently in Cairo, […]
By: Tony Davis Candidate for Charlottetown mayor William McFadden sat mostly silent, only choosing to speak a few times during last Wednesday’s debate at the W.A. Murphy Student Centre at UPEI with fellow candidates Philip Brown, Kim Devine, Cecil Villard, Jamie […]
By: Chelsea Perry Charlottetown is one of Canada’s safest cities, but alas, we all have to die someday. Based on your zodiac sign, how will you meet your demise at UPEI? Aries (March 21-April 19) Fearless leaders, Aries never miss […]
By: Bryce Doiron Emma McGee is not impressed with her school right now. St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia came under fire recently after a student charged with sexual assault was allowed to return to campus and continue his program. […]
By: Allison O’Brien After nearly two years of consultations and drafting, the University of Prince Edward Island finally released it’s sexual violence policy on October 12. The policy, which was supposed to be completed at the end of the 2017/2018 […]
By: Chelsea Perry In partnership between The Guardian, the UPEISU, and Eastlink TV, a highly anticipated mayoral debate will be hosted at UPEI’s McMillan Hall tomorrow, October 24th. The debate starts at 7PM, but spectators are asked to be seated […]
By: Chelsea Perry What kind of instrument do you play on Halloween? A SPOOKulele. HAHAHA. Haha. Ha. Moving on. The UPEI Music Society is back in business, hosting their annual Haunted House, a night guaranteed to get you into the […]
Disposition is a convergent journalism project initiated by Chelsea Perry. It aims to provide the UPEI international community with a platform to share their stories, and break down the divisive mentality of “us versus them.†The series will be updated […]
By: Thomas Becker He did things on the court few in this area have seen before. His first step was like a blur, and he consistently made opposing defences look foolish when assigned to guard him. He was a gifted, […]