Ruck yeah! The Nova Scotia School Athletic Federation announced the full reinstatement of rugby in Nova Scotia high schools after numerous conversations, a vote over player safety and proper training for coaches. With the start of a new school year, Nova Scotia high school students were wondering if they would have the chance to hit […]
Jennifer Cruickshank
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NS government to give loan forgiveness to university students who stay in province
S tarting August 1, Nova Scotians undergraduate students attending universities within the province will not have to pay back provincial student loans. The Nova Scotia Loan Forgiveness program promises Nova Scotian students graduating from Nova Scotia universities can have 100 percent of their provincial student loans forgiven. According to the Department of Labour and Advanced […]
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After a nine-month search, Dal’s new president starts in eight months
Dalhousie University’s Board of Governors announced Thursday that Dr. Deep Saini has been elected as the university’s new president and vice-chancellor. He will be only the 12th president in the history of the 200-year-old school. Saini is not the first Dalhousie president to be born outside of North America; he follows inaugural president Thomas McCulloch […]
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Council to explore making open street events more affordable
Council’s work to help support open street events is now in motion. Councillor Sam Austin requested this week for the city to find ways to help support and reduce the costs of policing and street closures for these events. Austin says open street events provide a lot of value in his district, and thinks it […]
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Floorball’s world championship rolls into Halifax this week
Halifax has played host of to a number of major sporting events, including the World Junior Hockey Championships in 2003, the 2015 World Men’s Curling Championship and the World Figure Skating Championships way back in 1990. Now this week it’s hosting the world championship for something called floorball. The 2019 World Floorball Championships for men […]
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UPDATE: Rugby gets kicked in the crotch by NS sports federation
UPDATE TWO, TUESDAY MAY 7: So. On Thursday the NSSAF canned rugby, then Friday the education minister made his statement demanding its return, and that seemed like the last word. But despite the minister’s convincingly stern tone, the NSSAF didn’t reverse its decision; at the start of the week rugby was still sidelined. Today, however, […]
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David Sedaris is coming back to Halifax in August
On August 6, storyteller David Sedaris is returning to Halifax for a one-night reading event, “An Evening With David Sedaris.” With the release of his latest book Calypso—yet another Sedaris entry on the The New York Times Bestseller List—Sedaris is touring once again. Calypso is earning praise as Sedaris’ most deeply personal and darkly hilarious […]
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HFX Wanderers looking to turn their luck around in pro soccer home opener
A new era in Canadian soccer began last weekend with the start of play in the professional Canadian Premier League. In front of a sold-out crowd Sunday night in Westhills Stadium in Langford, BC, the HFX Wanderers lost their first game 1-0 to Pacific FC. During a slow start for Halifax in the first half, Pacific’s […]
