A months’ long food fight between Dalhousie university and the Dal student union appears to be winding down, with the student’s refusing to play the university’s game. Right now, the student union has a contract with Sodexho for food service in the student union building, the SUB, while the university has one with Aramark for […]
Bethany Horne
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Emergency shelter politics
One size doesn’t fit all. They tried to tell us so. After their warnings fell on deaf ears, this coalition of do-gooders now known as the Out of the Cold shelter organizing committee switched tactics. They combined their considerable resources and contacts and started working to create a new homeless shelter—-one that would fit the […]
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Out in the cold
A deal between the provincial government and an organization that runs some of Halifax’s homeless shelters could end up endangering the lives of homeless people this winter, front-line workers say. In October, minister of community services Judy Streatch announced that Pendleton Place would not re-open this winter due to an agreement her department made with […]