Past Announcements
Hello STFX,
Have you always wanted to learn how to jump a car? What about changing a tire? LEEP STFX is hosting a Basics of Car Maintenance workshop in March!
Please fill out the survey below to express your interest in attending. All students and faculty are welcome.
We are looking at doing this on the evening of March 25th.
LEEP STFX - Car Maintenance Survey
We hope to see you there!
Kind Regards,
LEEP STFX President
Dylan Thompson-MacKay
The Frank McKenna Centre for Leadership is pleased to announce that Manjit Minhas, star of Dragons' Den, will deliver the 2025 McKenna Lecture on March 25, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. in McKenna Hall. In this Lecture, entitled “Rising to the Top: Get the Best Through Inclusive Leadership” Manjit asks how can we truly rise up to the occasions that challenge us? How can we harness exciting possibilities in a way that inspires others? How can we ensure everyone under our leadership has what they need to thrive?
Join us on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Your gift will provide essential financial aid for students, covering food, housing, tuition, and educational supplies.
Ways to Give:
✅ Online
✅ In person (March 25, Mulroney Hall): Join us on campus, make a gift and take some photos at our donor flower wall! 🌸
✅ Payroll deductions via UKG:
· Log into UKG
· Choose the Giving Tab from the menu, it may take a couple of minutes to open.
· Click on the Day of Giving Campaign.
· Choose a preselected amount or choose other to enter a donation amount of your choosing to be deducted from each pay.
· Choose the date you wish to begin payroll deductions.
· Click on the Box marked donate this amount from each regular pay.
· Click on Submit.
Let’s help our students BLOOM! 🌺
The Angus L. Macdonald Library is pleased to provide access to "Proquest One Sustainability" for a limited time. Access ends on March 23, 2025.
ProQuest One Sustainability is a trans-disciplinary research collection focused on sustainability and interrelated disciplines. Millions of full-text items including scholarly journals, case studies, NGO reports, dissertations, books, and more are supplemented by topic overviews aligned around the three pillars of sustainability: environment, social and economic. Overviews and supporting research on each of the 17 SDG's are also featured, along with various trending topics.
Subjects Covered: Social Sciences, Science & Technology
It is available from the A-Z database list or Access here.
Hello StFX!
Are you looking to take part in a national fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society? If so, come participate in Relay for Life StFX! Relay for Life is a chance for you to send a powerful message of solidarity to your community. All proceeds from the event go to the Canadian Cancer Society to help fund life-saving cancer research. The event is taking place on campus on Saturday, March 22nd, from 4pm-12am.
The event consists of members from each team walking laps around the gym to symbolize perseverance and action needed to improve lives and change the future of cancer!
This is an event you won’t want to miss! With live entertainment, food, and games! Register or donate today at https://relayforlife.ca/stfxu
We hope to see you all there!
-StFX Relay for Life Committee
The German classes will be celebrating their 18th German Day at StFX on March 21 at 4 pm in Dennis Hall.
The event will feature inspiring student presentations, guest speakers, and a quiz.
German cake and coffee will be served.
Everyone is welcome to join us.
The Allan J. MacEachen Annual Lecture Series
KIM RICHARD NOSSAL
Rethinking Canadian-American Relations in the Post-American Era
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
Schwartz Auditorium, StFX Schwartz School of Business
Kim Richard Nossal went to school in Melbourne, Beijing, Toronto, and Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Toronto, and in 1976 joined McMaster University to teach International Relations and Canadian foreign policy. He was chair of the Department of Political Science from 1992 to 1996. In 2001, he moved to Queen’s University to head the Department of Political Studies. After stepping down as head in 2009, he served as director of the Centre for International and Defence Policy from 2011-13 and as director of the School of Policy Studies from 2013-15. He retired from Queen’s in 2020.
StFX is pleased to present the annual Allan J. MacEachen Lecture Series This lecture series has been established through the generous support of friends and associates of the late Honourable Allan J. MacEachen.
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff.
We want to hear from you! Your feedback on Campus Food Services helps us improve your dining experience. Take a few minutes to complete this survey and let us know what you like and what can be improved. As a thank you, we ask you leave your name and email at the end of the survey for a chance to win one of three $50 DCB prizes!
Don't wait! Your input matters! Survey closes March 17th.
Sincerely,
Sodexo Campus Food
Student Opportunity
Angus L. Macdonald Library
$16.50 an hour for approximately five hours per week (September-April)
Student Library Ambassadors
Student Library Ambassadors are students who are (or will become) library advocates. Their mission is to increase student familiarity and usage of our library. As an ambassador, you’ll learn how to leverage the resources, spaces, and services of the library to advance your studies and that of your peers (training will be provided).
You will help organize and create content (such as social media content, book displays, events, and more) for outreach efforts to students. The library will rely on you to be well-versed in social media platforms (including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok) and to offer new and innovative ideas for social media campaigns.
Working approximately five hours a week, you will work closely with our Diversity, Outreach, and Engagement Librarian and the University Librarian’s office to seek ways to enhance student engagement and promote library services. The best candidates will have creative ideas, good communication skills, and a reasonable degree of technical acumen.
If you are interested in this unique employment opportunity, please submit a short letter (500 words maximum) in PDF format, describing your interest in this role and outlining any applicable experience you have had to liboffice@stfx.ca by March 26th. Please put Student Library Ambassador in the subject line.
The library is seeking candidates who are committed to contributing to the StFX priorities of equity, diversity, and inclusion. A demonstrated ability in fostering a climate of inclusion and cultural safety is a strong asset. Preference will be given to applicants who bring lived experience of historically excluded groups. You are invited to self-identify in your letter of application.
We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, including through all aspects of the hiring process. If you require support during the hiring process, please contact Human Resources hr@stfx.ca so that accommodations can be put in place to support you. All private information received in relation to your request for support will be kept confidential; only information required to facilitate the accommodation will be shared with the selection committee.
The Alumni Affairs Team would like to invite you to Glow in the Dark Yoga on Sunday, March 16, at 4:00 PM! (location: KMC conference rooms)
Get ready for a fun and engaging hour led by Allana Beaton, complete with music, glow sticks, and movement! This free session is open to students, faculty, and staff—come as you are and enjoy a unique yoga experience!
✨ What to Bring:
Comfortable yoga attire
Water
A yoga mat (if you have one—some will be available)
We can’t wait to see you there!
The Alumni Affairs Team
Important Message for the StFX and Antigonish Community
- NS Health will be holding an Upper Respiratory Mobile Clinic in Antigonish this Wednesday March 12th.
- The clinic will run from 5-8pm with phone lines opening at 2pm the day of the clinic. Phone number for booking is 902-863-2830 Ext 4249.
- Note: This is not a drop-in clinic.
- Location is the Diabetes Centre on the 2nd Floor Antigonish Health & Wellness Centre at St. Martha’s.
Many people in the community are experiencing influenza and other upper respiratory illnesses and our local emergency department is overwhelmed, with long wait times. If you are experiencing upper respiratory symptoms and need to see a doctor, please take advantage of this mobile clinic on Wednesday evening.
At StFX, we believe that students have the right to make informed decisions about their alcohol consumption.
The Substance Use and Health in Emerging Adulthood (SHEA) Lab in partnership with the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) is piloting a new alcohol education campaign called "Your Drink. Your Call."
Join us on Tuesday March 11th from 11am - 2pm in the Mulroney lower bowl for the "Your Drink. Your Call" launch event. We will be sampling non-alcoholic beverages, answering questions about Canada's Guidance on Alcohol and Health and promoting a culture of knowledge and choice when thinking about alcohol.
What you choose to drink and when you choose to drink is Your Call. Join us on March 11th!
Your Drink. Your Call.
Resources:
knowalcohol.ca
https://www.ccsa.ca/canadas-guidance-alcohol-and-health
Save the Date for our Annual Red Dress Learning Lodge!
DATE: March 5th, 2025
TIME: 6:00-9:00 PM
LOCATION: Schwartz Auditorium
Everyone Welcome!
Speakers to be announced shortly along with events for the week!
We have been advised that there is a watermain break in front of 118 St.Ninians St. and the Town of Antigonish Public Works Department will be performing repairs today. They will be restricting vehicular traffic to St. Ninians St. from Martha Dr., Cathedral Way, and Notre Dame during these repairs.
Facilities Management regrets any inconvenience this may be causing.
The X-Women will meet Cape Breton in the AUS quarterfinal game Friday at 1:00 pm, while the X-Men will play the winner of MUN-UNB in the semifinals Saturday at 3:00 pm.
The 2025 Bell AUS Basketball Championships will be hosted by the AUS conference at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, N.S., Feb. 28 to March 2. Each doubleheader will feature one women's game and one men's game.
The championship schedule is as follows:
Friday, February 28th
- Women's Quarterfinal #1: Cape Breton (5th) vs. STFX (4th), 1 p.m.
Saturday, March 1st
- Women's Semifinal #1: Winner of QF1 vs. Saint Mary's (1st), 1 p.m.
- Men's Semifinal #1: Winner of QF1 vs. STFX (1st), 3 p.m.
Sunday, March 2nd
- Women's Championship Game: Winner of SF1 vs. Winner of SF2, 1 p.m.
- Men's Championship Game: Winner of SF1 vs. Winner of SF2, 4 p.m.
All games of the championship will be streamed live on AUStv.
For more information on the 2025 Bell AUS Basketball Championships, visit the event website at: www.AUSHoops.ca. Single session tickets will become available through Ticketmaster Monday at 11 a.m. here.
The 2025 INDOCHINO U SPORTS Women's and Men's Final 8 Basketball Championships are being hosted together March 13-16 in Vancouver, B.C.
The Atlantic conference is guaranteed only one berth in each championship, which will be awarded to the AUS champions.
Get ready STFX — X-Women Hockey is back on home ice!
The X-Women are hosting games one and two of the AUS Semifinal Series against St. Thomas at the Keating Centre Friday & Saturday night! Time to make some noise for the blue & white when the puck drops at 7:00pm!
All STFX students are eligible for a FREE ticket at the box office on game day! Secure your seat & we’ll see you at the arena — GO X GO!
Please join us as we celebrate African Heritage Month!
This year's provincial theme, Legacy in Action: Celebrating Black Brilliance, highlights the enduring legacy of excellence, resilience and innovation demonstrated by people of African descent throughout the centuries in our province. In recognition and in celebration of our rich history, everyone is encouraged to attend the following events:
Date | Time | Location | Event |
January 30 | 10:00am | Chisholm Park | Town Flag Raising |
February 4 | 11:00am | Joyce Family Atrium (MULH) | StFX AHM Launch Celebration |
February 6 | 7-9pm | Bloomfield Hub | African Drumming |
February 8 | 6&8pm | Coach K Court | AHM Basketball Games |
February 11 | 10am-2pm | Ancestry Tracing Event | Town Library |
February 13 | 4:30-7:30pm | AHM Sodexo Dinner | Morrison Hall |
February 26 | 8-9pm | Black X-cellence Panel | Zoom |
February 28 | 6-9:30 | AHM Black Student Gala | TBD |
African Heritage Month Calendar African Heritage Month Events
UPDATE as of 12:00 PM: Power has been restored to all campus buildings. Classes will resume as planned.
Please be advised that an unexpected power outage has occurred affecting some buildings on campus. The situation is being investigated. A list of the affected buildings is below for your reference.
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT CLASSES IN UNAFFECTED BUILDINGS WILL CONTINUE AS PER SCHEDULE.
Operations, including classes in affected buildings are cancelled, resuming operations at 12:00 PM (noon) today, Friday February 28.
BUILDINGS WITH NO POWER AFFECTING CLASSES:
- Annex
- J Bruce Brown
- Keating Centre
- Nicholson Tower
- Saputo Centre
The Alumni Aquatic Centre has resumed operations for swimming lessons and the PHAST practice this evening. There will be no open swims tonight, 28 February 2025. Regular hours will resume tomorrow, 1 March 2025.
In celebration of African Heritage Month, we welcome StFX students, faculty, and staff to join us virtually for the third annual: Black X-cellence Panel.
DATE: Wednesday, February 26th 2025
TIME: 8pm Atlantic
LOCATION: Virtual
This online panel will include an inspiring conversation between five Black StFX alumni from across the decades on their experiences at StFX and their careers. Panelists include:
- Buttons Ashe-Henry (BA '94, BEd '95) - Elementary School Teacher in the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic School Board; MVP of the 1994 X-Women Basketball Team.
- Peter Thurton (BA '84)– recently retired Business Law attorney, who has represented large corporate clients such as Manulife Financial, CIBC, Royal Bank Insurance, & Enbridge; Lecturer on corporate ethics and governance at the Rome Business School, Italy.
- E.L. Adams II (BA '03) - Child Psychologist with his own practice and therapy groups; presentations on Mental Health, Mood, and Music; X-Men Basketball team 2x National Champion.
- Sharonne King (BBA '22 ) - StFX’s International Recruitment Officer; winner of the Trudy Eagan Women in Business Award and the McKenna Centre's Racial Justice Leadership Award.
- This conversation will be hosted by StFX alumnus Kwame Osei '10, '12, who is a motivational speaker, author, former X-men and CFL player and finalist on the Amazing Race Canada. Kwame is the co-founder of the LIFT Bursary, established to support Black student leaders at StFX.
This will be a powerful conversation - we hope you can join us!
*Exciting News! StFX is delighted to announce that these Black X-cellence conversations have inspired the establishment of the first-ever Black StFX Alumni Chapter. If you identify as a Black alumnus, please fill out this survey to share your feedback on the Chapter’s focus and activities.
This event is brought to you by: StFX Alumni Office, StFX Alumni Association, StFX Black Student Advising Office, StFX Office of the Associate Vice President, Research, & Graduate Studies, and the LIFT Bursary for Black Student Leaders
