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Local information Conference locations About Antigonish St. Francis Xavier University is a mainly undergraduate university with about 4000 students. It is located in the town of Antigonish, which has a population of 5000 and offers many amenities that one would normally find only in larger towns and cities. Due to its small size, one can reach virtually everything in town within a 10-20 minute...

Carl Adams' CT Clock The "hours" hand measures CT in Tm (Tera meter), i.e., if it advances from one thick mark to the next CT advances by 1Tm. The "minutes" hand measures CT in T" (Tera inch), i.e., if it advances from one thin mark to the next, CT advances by 1 T". The "seconds" hand measures CT in hecto Earth radii. This means if it advances from one thin mark to the next, CT advances by 100...

Students in the Applied Forensic Psychology Program are required to complete two 40-hour practica in approved forensically relevant settings; one practicum in each year of the program. Students will be encouraged to explore options and opportunities for doing a placement in their home communities.  Each practicum will allow students to: (1) observe/shadow psychologists and other forensic staff in...

Normally offered every second year, the Model United Nations (Course PSCI 357) is an introduction to the structures, activities, and operations of the UN, the protocols and procedures of UN deliberations, and contemporary international issues and agendas faced by the UN and its member states. The course is built around student preparation for, and participation in, simulated UN deliberations at...

DR. JOHN STEWART DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY FELLOW ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY In ancient Greece a state was called a polis. Our terms politics, politicians, policy, and police are all based on that old Greek word. Clearly, politics, the management of our common affairs, whether it be at the municipal, the provincial, or the national level, is important. And it isn't easy. To rank as good a...

PRESIDENT DR. SEAN RILEY ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY 17 April 1997 Welcome ladies and gentlemen, honoured guests, your Excellency, to the inaugural Allan J. MacEachen Annual Lecture in Politics. Somewhere between the desirable and the achievable lies politics. A good political leader is a hardened idealist, an adventurist, a pragmatist; all this and often much more. But few who begin with the...

DR. RODNEY HADDOW, CHAIR DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 17 April 1997 As most of you know, the Honourable Bob Rae was the Premier of Ontario from 1990 to 1995 and was elected eight times to the federal and provincial parliaments before his retirement from politics last year. He led the NDP in Ontario from ‘82 to ’96 and served as leader of the official opposition before becoming Premier. Mr. Rae...

MR. DALTON CAMP, O.C. AUTHOR, JOURNALIST AND POLITICAL ADVISOR 9 February 2000 Thank you. Obviously, I am very moved by that introduction. You now know me better than I do. I just want to say this to Lowell, in the case he felt pressed for time, I’d be glad to yield some of mine so you can continue. Mr. President, and distinguished members of the Senate, Privy Council and this community and this...

DR. RICHARD ALWAY, O.C. PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE 3 April 2002 In late August of 1979, a man and his family crested a hill and looked out over the Arctic Ocean. They had canoed from the upper reaches of the Burnside River to its mouth, a journey of 210 kilometers through rapids, portages, unpredictable weather and the occasional immersion in frigid water. It was a...

THE HONOURABLE ROY ROMANOW FORMER PREMIER OF SASKATCHEWAN COMMISSIONER OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON HEALTH CARE 19 February 2003 First of all, I apologize for my sore throat. It hit me about 72 hours ago and the long flight from Saskatchewan last night and yesterday, hasn't made it any easier. Now that's always bad news for a politician, when he or she can't speak, but very good news for the...

PRESIDENT DR. SEAN RILEY ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY 19 February 2003 Good evening everyone, and welcome to the 6th Allan J. MacEachen Annual Lecture in Politics. It is an honour to introduce a Canadian of great integrity and vision, a person who has dedicated his life to serving the citizens of his home province of Saskatchewan and the people of Canada, the Honourable Roy Romanow. It is...

MR. PRESTON MANNING FORMER LEADER OF THE REFORM PARTY OF CANADA 3 November 2003 Thanks for the invitation to join you tonight, and for the honour of presenting the annual Allan J. MacEachen Lecture. I have been asked to talk about Judicial Activism, Social Policy, and the Role of Parliament. But it is a little intimidating to do so knowing that Allan MacEachen – with his vast knowledge and...

DR. STEVEN HOLLOWAY CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 22 October 2009 Good evening. I am Steven Holloway, Chair of the Department of Political Science. And I would like to welcome you to the annual Allan J. MacEachen Lecture in Politics. St. Francis Xavier University is once again pleased to host this prestigious lecture. The establishment of the lecture series was announced on June 11th 1996...

THE HONOURABLE LOWELL MURRAY P.C. POLITICIAN AND ACTIVIST 11 October 2012 Allan J. once accused me of being what he called a “provincialist.” I recall the occasion vividly. It was in Pakenham, Ontario, in the kitchen of my house, while he poured himself a drink of my Scotch. Appropriately enough, it was of the Famous Grouse. I replied then, and repeat now, that I am no more “provincialist” than he...

DR. KENT MACDONALD PRESIDENT, ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY 2 February 2015 Good evening everyone. I look with some level of satisfaction at the New England Patriots’ jerseys and hats here this evening. Let me just welcome everyone here tonight, in particular, our guest speaker the Honourable Don Johnston, who will be introduced formally shortly. The MacEachen Lecture Series was started almost 20...

… His contribution, obviously to this University, but to Antigonish, to Nova Scotia, … of a school, an on-reserve school in northern Ontario, northern Saskatchewan, way up … His contribution, obviously to this University, but to Antigonish, to Nova Scotia, …

DR. JAMES BICKERTON DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 15 November 2016 Well, good evening everyone. Thank you all for coming. I think we are going to have a great evening tonight. My name is Jim Bickerton. I am in the Political Science Department here at St. F. X. and I am also on the MacEachen Lecture Committee. And I would like to begin this evening by acknowledging - and this is especially...

Noah Barrett, a fourth year honours computer science student from Tatamagouche, NS, has been building a pair of robots from the ground up as part of his honours thesis, working with his supervisor, computer science professor Dr. James Hughes.

St. Francis Xavier University has been awarded $794,000 to expand and enhance its computer science programs.

A team of StFX computer science students, Zhou Ti and Jueqi Wang, have won the 2020 Atlantic Canadian Programming Competition held Oct. 31.