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The University of New Brunswick was founded in 1785. Throughout our long history, we have influenced the future of thousands of scholars. UNB has helped shape the social and economic landscape of this country and beyond. With nearly 12,000 full-time students, the university offers 75 undergraduate, graduate, certificate or diploma programs and participates in over 30 different fields of graduate work and research. Our university is home to over 3,000 members of faculty and staff who participate in research world-wide.

Building on a tradition of excellence, the University of New Brunswick continues to work to give students the best possible education. By developing programs, increasing international ties, using the latest pedagogies and technologies, and building partnerships with business and governments, the University of New Brunswick is a leading national university.

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Palestinian women react after their home was hit by an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 8, 2024. In Gaza and elsewhere, an effective feminist foreign aid policy needs political action to address root causes of poverty, violence and sexual and reproductive harm. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Canada’s inaction in Gaza marks a failure of its feminist foreign policy

Canada’s tepid response to the war in Gaza and the severe harm caused to Palestinian women casts doubt on the sincerity of the government’s Feminist International Assistance Policy.
Même pour un professionnel de la santé expérimenté, estimer l'espérance de vie d'un patient atteint d'une maladie grave est un défi. (Shutterstock)

Combien de temps vivra un être cher ? La réponse est difficile à entendre, mais ne pas savoir est encore pire

Une prédiction précise de l’espérance de vie peut devancer la tenue de discussions sur les préférences et les souhaits de fin de vie, ainsi que la mise en place des soins palliatifs.
Organizations that gather information should establish a framework for responsibly managing user data. (Shutterstock)

Want to know if your data are managed responsibly? Here are 15 questions to help you find out

Responsible data stewardship must take many factors into account including legal requirements, data governance, cybersecurity and user privacy.
Even for an experienced health-care professional, estimating the life expectancy of a patient with a serious illness is challenging. (Shutterstock)

How long will a loved one live? It’s difficult to hear, but harder not to know

An accurate prediction of survival can enable earlier conversations about preferences and wishes at the end of life, and earlier introduction of palliative care.
New Brunswick’s contentious updated Policy 713 on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools will take effect July 1. (Shutterstock)

New Brunswick’s LGBTQ+ safe schools debate makes false opponents of parents and teachers

Guided by policy, practice and relationships with students, families and communities, teachers are charged with helping all students thrive. To suggest otherwise is disturbing.
Initially, inclusion in schools meant bringing students with disabilities, who had previously been educated in segregated institutions, into mainstream school. A classroom seen in Vancouver, B.C., April 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Achieving full inclusion in schools: Lessons from New Brunswick

Research about how New Brunswick education has envisioned inclusion since the 1980s offers lessons in rethinking how to realize schools that celebrate all students’ strengths.
The federal Impact Assessment Act, which seeks to minimize the environmental impacts of major economic projects, is at the centre of a dispute over whether it intrudes into provincial jurisdiction over natural resources development. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

How a Supreme Court case could decide the future of Canadian climate policy

Canada’s federal Impact Assessment Act seeks to minimize the environmental impacts of major economic projects. Will the Supreme Court uphold the act?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks during a news conference, as Education Minister Stephen Lecce looks on in Toronto on Nov. 7, 2022. Ontario has repealed legislation that imposed a contract on 55,000 education workers and invoked the notwithstanding clause. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Preventing use of the notwithstanding clause is a bad idea — and unnecessary

A Supreme Court reference on the notwithstanding clause could look beyond the highly polarized reactions to any particular law and get at the heart of the issue.
Newfoundland and Labrador has implemented a tax of 20 cents per litre on sugary drinks. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

How taxing sugary drinks reinforces weight stigma

Taxation of sugar-sweetened drinks is not only inequitable, but also has the potential to create or perpetuate weight stigma, which has negative effects on mental and physical health.
Minister of Justice David Lametti participates in an Ottawa news conference in June 2022 on proposed amendments to the Criminal Code in response to a Supreme Court of Canada decision involving a defence of extreme intoxication. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

What Parliament refused to hear about Canada’s new extreme intoxication law

More than a dozen women’s organizations pleaded with the federal government to slow down and treat their concerns seriously about Bill C-28. It didn’t listen.
Climate researchers stress that natural gas bridges can often lead to nowhere as the reliance on natural gas can lock countries into fossil fuels, crowd out low-carbon technologies and risk stranding assets. (Shutterstock)

A bridge to nowhere: Natural gas will not lead Canada to a sustainable energy future

Fossil fuel companies are winning the battle on how we talk about natural gas expansion by referring to it as a “bridge fuel” or an essential bridge to the net-zero energy system of the future.
Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marco Mendicino holds a press conference in Ottawa in November 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Canada needs to build more affordable housing for newcomers

Addressing the housing issue by adopting a human right framework put Canada on an accelerated path to meet newcomer families’ housing needs.
Brenda Murphy is the 32nd lieutenant governor of New Brunswick. She was appointed Sept. 8, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephen MacGillivray

New Brunswick’s ruling that the lieutenant governor must be bilingual needs to be appealed, but not for the reasons you think

The federal government must appeal this ruling — not because it disagrees with it, but because such a consequential decision requires greater appreciation of the Crown and its constitutional nuances.
According to an IPCC analysis, planting trees can help keep global warming below 1.5 C. (Shutterstock)

Canada needs to cut carbon, not try to capture it

A tax credit for companies that invest in carbon capture technology would divert financing away from cheaper and safer climate solutions.
People gather in Kingston, Ont., to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and masking measures on Nov. 14, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg 

COVID-19 vaccine mandates would likely face legal hurdles in Canada

Can the government mandate vaccines? Canadians have rights to make decisions about vaccination, but these rights are not absolute, and do not mean those decisions will have no consequences.
New Brunswick Aboriginal Affairs Minister Arlene Dunn and Premier Blaine Higgs speak with the media as part of National Indigenous Peoples Day in Fredericton on June 21, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stephen MacGillivray

New Brunswick ban on land acknowledgements is a death blow to nation-to-nation relationships

If senior ministers of the Crown in New Brunswick responsible for Indigenous relations cannot accept or acknowledge Indigenous sovereignty, then surely nation-to-nation must be dead.

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