Past Announcements
Give the gift of wellness and active living this Holiday Season! From December 1st to 20th, you can purchase 10 open swim, or public skate passes for just $10. Don’t miss out on this awesome deal before it’s gone!
10 for $10 Open Swim and Public Skates
10 Pass Punch Card with STFX Wellness & Active Living
Promo on from December 1st - 20th
Terms and Conditions:
- This punch card is non-transferable
- Card must be present to receive punch - redeem
- Non-refundable
- Expires on March 31st, 2025
Dear Faculty and Staff:
Before you leave for the holiday break, we are asking that you please:
- Close all windows, including any labs/offices/other.
- Power down and unplug any computers or other electronic equipment, especially those that are not connected to surge protectors.
- Unplug space heaters and other appliances that are not in use.
- Remove any perishable food or beverage from desks, offices and/or refrigerators.
Please note that Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement, and there is significant snow forecast, starting Friday night into Saturday. Keep this in mind as you are preparing for the holiday break.
Thank you for your cooperation.
StFX Safety & Security Services
Cohen Pictou – Winner of the Regional Tom Longboat Award from Nova Scotia
Cohen Pictou, a first-year student in Human Kinetics was honoured with the Regional Tom Longboat Award for Nova Scotia. He recently traveled to Ottawa to be celebrated along with other provincial and territorial honourees.
The Tom Longboat Award (established in 1951) is the most prestigious and longstanding award that recognizes aboriginal athletes for their outstanding contributions to sport in Canada. Tom Longboat (1886-1949), an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, had a dominant running career and became the first Indigenous person from Canada to win the Boston Marathon and in record time. He went on to represent Canada at the 1908 Olympics, set a record in 15-mile world record in 1912, and served in the First World War as a dispatch runner. He was notably recognized with a Heritage Minute.
Cohen was recognized for his athlete prowess as a basketball player on the North American Indigenous Games team in 2023. Cohen was also acknowledged for his hockey expertise coming from his invitation to the Cape Breton Eagles QMJHL Camp in 2023 and his participation in the 2023 National Aboriginal Hockey championships in Winnipeg.
IT Services has received reports of widespread phishing messages that appears to originate from StFX accounts. The subject line of recent phishing email was JOB VACANCY! and details a job opportunity. This email is not authentic.
Please continue to be diligent when reviewing email. If you see a message that seems suspicious or odd, such as messages that prompt you to enter log in credentials, personal or banking information or ask you to send money, report it using Outlook’s Report Message feature.
For more helpful tips on identifying phishing messages please click “How to spot a phish” on the IT Services web site - stfx.ca/ithelp.
If you have any questions regarding the information in this bulletin, please contact IT Services.
IT Services, St. Francis Xavier University
Angus L. Macdonald Library
mystfx.ca/ithelp
(902) 867-2356
"Land and the Highland Clearances from the soil upwards"
The Department of Celtic Studies at StFX is pleased to present a guest lecture by Euan Healey, PhD candidate in History and Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, on Thursday 5th of December at 2:30pm in Mulroney Hall 3030. All are welcome.
Abstract: Despite their significance, popular experience of the Highland Clearances, a series of mass evictions and forced migrations in Gaelic-speaking Scotland from c1750-c1886, remain understudied in both history and archaeology. Using a combination of landscape archaeology and oral testimony this study proposes a new way of understanding the relationship between evicted Gaelic people and the places they lived and worked. In doing so, this paper recentres Gaelic people in their own histories, and provide new ways of looking at key debates on land rights and knowledges in the Gàidhealtachd as well as provide a challenge for future, bottom-up, interdisciplinary studies.
Bio: Euan Healey is a PhD historian and archaeologist at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. His work focuses on the interactions between subsistence labour and the environment in rural and maritime settings, with his PhD exploring fishing in Gaelic-speaking Scotland. He is currently a visiting researcher at Simon Fraser University, BC, and an uninvited guest on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations, where he is considering interactions, parallels and colonialisms involving Gaelic-speaking and Indigenous people in Canada.
The CEI is excited to announce registration is open for the 2025 offering of the Leadership for Young Professionals course! The course will run from January 16 to March 20, 2025, and will be held online. Registration will remain open until December 3, 2024.
This course is intended to support young professionals in the early stages of their careers (less than 5 years in the workforce) as they explore what leadership means to them in the context of their work and future goals. It will offer participants the chance to grow their understanding of what leadership means, explore their personal strengths as leaders, learn new skills, and begin to think through how they can apply their leadership in the workplace.
Full bursaries are available from the CEI for eligible applicants from the Nova Scotia Works system. To access the bursaries, individuals from the Nova Scotia Works system should contact their Executive Director or the CEI for a voucher code. A limited number of full bursaries are also available for First Nations, Métis and Inuit persons residing in Canada as well as persons from African Nova Scotian communities. If you belong to one of these communities and would like to request a full bursary, please reach out to @email - once the email is reviewed, a voucher code for free registration will be provided.
To learn more or to register, please visit our course page: https://online.stfx.ca/product?catalog=Coady-LFYP
For questions, please email @email.
Help us spread holiday cheer by making a card for local seniors at the R.K Macdonald Nursing Home❄️❄️❄️
The Angus L. Macdonald Library has partnered with Flourish at X and the R.K to make holiday cards and drop them off for residents on December 19. Stop by the Library, Kiknu or pop up tables around campus to make a holiday card starting on December 2nd!
If you If you would like to contribute to StFX Winter Wishes but can't make it to the in-person crafting sessions, create a card at home with your thoughts and messages, and we will pick up your card from you or you can drop it off at the library front desk or to Bethany in Bloomfield 303D.
For more information, contact Grace Bourret: gbourret@stfx.ca
Thursday, 28 November, 7:30 p.m., 2032 MULH. A Capstone Lecture in the Humanities Colloquium by Steven Baldner, Philosophy. This lecture is for a general audience. All are welcome.
The 2024 Fall Convocation Grad list is out! Click on the list below to access.
Fall Convocation 2024 Grad List.
Congratulations to all students graduating this weekend!
For more information on Fall Convocation, visit the 2024 Fall Convocation page.
To the Campus Community,
The parking area adjacent to the Antigonish Skate Park has been redesignated as Parking Area P19. Parking Area P19 IS NOT an OVERNIGHT parking area. Signs have been put in place indicating that there is NO OVERNIGHT PARKING allowed in Parking Area P19.
Please do not park your vehicle in P19 between 1AM and 6AM daily. If you park your vehicle overnight in P19, you risk having your vehicle ticketed and/or towed at your own expense. Also, please remember that Parking Area P19 is a shared parking area with patrons who use the Antigonish Skate Park.
Overnight Parking on campus is allowed in the GOLD shaded areas on the Campus Parking Map.
https://www.stfx.ca/sites/default/files/documents/Security-StFX-Parking-Plan-2024-08-02.pdf
To the campus community,
Please take care when using the breezeway between St. Ninian’s Cathedral and St. Ninian’s Place. The breezeway is not StFX campus property, and we ask all students to be respectful. Failure to do so may result in the closure of the breezeway to the public.
Thank you.
Thursday, 28 November, 7:30 p.m., MULH 2032. A Capstone Lecture in the Humanities Colloquium by Steven Baldner, Philosophy. The lecture is for a general audience and all are welcome.
The Angus L. Macdonald Library is seeking qualified students to join our team for the remainder of the 2024-25 academic semester, with an option to extend. We offer:
- Flexible scheduling
- Shift switching
- Competitive wages
- Hands-on training
- Teach you how to use the library to help others and yourself
- Plus much more...
For more information or to apply, visit https://www.stfx.ca/library/about/now-hiring-library-student-assistants
Opening Reception and Artist Talk with Greg Davies
Greg Davies: Chronos exhibition, StFX Art Gallery
Wed. Nov. 6, 7 pm
In this oil painting series depicting endangered, threatened, and extinct animals, Greg Davies explores time and mortality. Using a dark tenebrist style inspired by Baroque art and early Romantic paintings of the 19th century, Davies brings artistic styles of the past to bear on present-day realities of climate crises.
Greg Davies is an artist and curator currently based in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. His drawing and painting practice explore subjects from multiple perspectives. Davies draws on past styles and historical techniques, foregrounding his belief in the sustainability of old styles. The visual references in Davies' art are informed by his background and work in the field of disciplinary art history.
Please consider yourself warmly invited ot the opening reception and artist talk with Greg Davies. Refreshments will be provided.
Bright Light Therapy Lamps are available to use at the Bloomfield Hub and now for borrowing at the StFX Library!
Bright Light Therapy Lamps are used to mimic sunlight levels, and sitting in front of a lamp for 15-20 minutes daily can help ease symptoms of clinically diagnosed seasonal affective disorder and improve sleep (Mayo Clinic).
How to Request a Bright Light Lamp from the Library:
In person: Go to the front desk of the Library and ask for the Bright Light Therapy Lamp!
or
Remotely:
- Go to stfx.ca/library
- Scroll down until you see the "Collections" section and click on the "Lifestyle Collection".
- Click on a therapy lamp and login to your StFX account.
- Click "Request from my library" and then "Send Request".
- Wait for an email from the Library and pick it up at the front desk!
If you have any questions about using Bright Light Therapy Lights, contact StFX Health and Counselling (902) 867-2263.
If you have questions about access the Bright Light Therapy Light, contact the StFX Library at library@stfx.ca
Allow us to (re)introduce ourselves.
We are the Bloomfield HUB, a student health and wellbeing community in the Health and Counselling Department at STFX. We aim to promote and protect student health and well-being through various approaches.
We offer peer-facilitated programs on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings from 7 to 10 p.m. throughout the academic year. We aim to harness the power of shared experiences to create supportive, empowering, and effective environments for growth, learning, and personal development. All of our events are free for students.
You can find us in person at the Bloomfield Hub ( 2nd floor Bloomfield/Student Union Building) or on Instagram online #flourishatx
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month
This month, IT Services will be promoting our cybersecurity awareness and training program Terranova. Through these courses and social media we will be sharing cyber security tips and tricks.
IT Services wants you to have some fun while learning about cybersecurity so we’re holding campus-wide raffles to both enhance your cybersecurity awareness and give you a chance to win great prizes! Participants will have the chance to win weekly gift cards from Sobeys, Superstore, The Curious Cat, Tall and Small, and the Farmer's Market, along with two grand prizes of headphones and an air fryer. These contests are open to students and staff who complete short cybersecurity courses in Terranova.
The theme of this year’s cyber security awareness month is Generation Cyber Safe: Because online security knows no age. Each week, IT Services will be launching a new course in Terranova on the following schedule:
Week 1 - Phishing: helping all generations avoid floundering
Week 2 - Passwords: keep your passwords from being 'fail'words
Week 3 - Updating for security: updating is important, like, should we still say demure?
Week 4 - Protecting Information: safe sharing is not a bad gig
This week's course is available now. It is called CSM Week 1 - Phishing. You will find this course by going to stfx.ca/ithelp and using the Terranova buttons found on the lefthand side or the links in our post about cybersecurity month.
Completing the course gives one entry into the weekly draw for one of two $50 gift cards and one entry into the grand prize draw.
A Capstone Lecture by Prof. Steven Baldner. 28 Nov., 7:30 p.m., 2032 MULH.
After centuries of being unknown, the philosophical work of Aristotle came into the mediaeval Scholastic world with the force of a scientific revolution. Conservative theologians found Aristotle's philosophy disquieting and regarded it as a threat to the faith. For Aquinas, by contrast, Aristotle's thought was liberating and helped him to gain a better understand of the world in relation to its creator. Nevertheless, Aquinas also found limitations in Aristotle's teaching that could be corrected by philosophy and theology.
This public lecture is intended for a general audience. All are welcome.
Greg Davies: Chronos
Opens for visitors, Wed. Oct. 30
In this oil painting series depicting endangered, threatened, and extinct animals, Greg Davies explores time and mortality. Using a dark tenebrist style inspired by Baroque art and early Romantic paintings of the 19th century, Davies brings artistic styles of the past to bear on present-day realities of climate crises.
Oct. 30 - Dec. 7
Wed. 2:30 – 6:30 pm
Thrs. 2:30 – 6:30 pm
Fri. 12:00 – 4:00 pm
Sat. 12:00 – 4:00 pm
Have you already completed the MyCampus Quiz for a chance to win a Starbucks gift card? You can increase your chance of winning in three easy steps:
- Click the button below to email the StFX Web Team (or compose an email to website@stfx.ca with the subject line "MyCampus Draw")*
- Include the code MYCAMPUS in your email
- Send away for another draw entry!
The contest is open to all StFX students, staff and faculty. The draw will take place on Thursday, October 31st. Winners will be notified by email.
*Only entries using StFX email accounts will be included in the draw.
