To mow or not to mow. That is the question. If you’re interested in helping spring pollinators adjust from winter hibernation into their busy flower season, you might have heard of the No Mow May campaign. It asks people to let the grass blades grow long and wild for a month, to help bees and […]
Lauren Phillips, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Lauren Phillips is The Coast’s Education Reporter, a position created in September 2023 with support from the Local Journalism Initiative. Lauren studied journalism at the University of King’s College, and has written on education and sports at Dal News and Saint Mary's Athletics for over two years. She won gold in the Canadian online publishing awards in the academic Best Multicultural Story category for her work on "Kwe’ Eskasoni," in May 2022, and assisted the journalism academic partners of Looking Out For Each Other (LOFEO), a project that started with the media guidelines on how to report responsibly on missing Indigenous people. Lauren assisted in researching recommendations for family and friends of missing Indigenous people to help them understand how media works and how to communicate effectively with reporters.
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Three Halifax schools dismiss students early on Tuesday following “unfounded” threats, while investigations into those responsible ongoing
Last updated: Thursday, May 2Students at Halifax West High near Clayton Park as well as Millwood High in Middle Sackville have been dismissed early for two days in a row this week in response to written threats of potential explosive devices, which police and RCMP are investigating. As of Tuesday afternoon, these investigations are ongoing. […]
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Are you happy?
If you could improve your overall happiness, wouldn’t you? What if it meant daily work? Probably still worth a shot. Based on that notion, five journalism students at the University of King’s College have created a podcast, called If It Makes You Happy. Over a three-episode series they ask volunteers to test out daily “happiness […]
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Nova Scotia teachers vote overwhelmingly for strike mandate
On Apr. 11, a record-breaking 98% of teachers in the Nova Scotia Teachers Union–NSTU–voted in favour of a strike mandate. 98 per cent of Nova Scotia teachers vote in favour of strike mandate#nspoli #OurKidsCantWait pic.twitter.com/CGSbuw33P6 — NS Teachers Union (@NSTeachersUnion) April 11, 2024 This means that the union of over 10,000 teachers and educational specialists […]
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Vote of no confidence from SMU faculty union against school’s president and board chair
The union of 292 full-time faculty members and librarians at Saint Mary’s University, SMUFU, has voted 91% “No Confidence,” in SMU’s president, Robert Summerby-Murray, and the chair of SMU’s board of governors, Alan Abraham. pic.twitter.com/wvBxYvI5SU — SMUFU (@SMUFacultyUnion) April 9, 2024 In the union’s press release from Tuesday, they write that the “financial mismanagement” by […]
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Don’t take a selfie with Monday’s solar eclipse! says SMU astronomer
On Tuesday, Apr. 2, Robert Thacker was doing his weekly “Science Files” call-in segment on City News’ The Todd Veinotte Show, when a caller asked a practical question about bodies, celestial bodies. The caller wanted to know if they could use their phone’s front camera, the selfie one, to safely watch the solar eclipse as […]
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Students use class at King’s as opportunity to express emotions following Oct. 7
“I’m trying to choose my words cautiously,” says Dorota Glowacka, a professor at the University of King’s College. Glowacka is discussing the exceptional moments university campuses have been experiencing in the immediate and prolonged aftermath of Hamas’ violent attack against Israelis, on Oct. 7. Related In October, Glowacka was teaching a course that King’s offers […]
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“We don’t want any more money being slicked with oil”
On Wednesday, Mar. 27, roughly 45 students marched through Dalhousie’s campus raising signs reading “Fossil Free Degree,”and “Net Zero by 2040,” from the Student Union Building to the office of Dal’s president, Kim Brooks. Says student campaign organizer Caitlin Lawrence, “we extended a formal invitation to President Kim Brooks but she did not attend or […]
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King’s invites Jewish and Palestinian co-authors to campus for open discussion with students
On Thursday evening, Mar. 21, three University of King’s College students stayed outside the largest lecture hall on campus discussing what they’d just heard. It was dark and tempestuous outside. At that hour, very few people were moving around the school. In a corner by a window and an exit door, they stood together in […]
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10,000 teachers will take strike vote April 11 as ‘wake-up call’ to province to reach a fair contract
There are roughly 10,000 teachers in Nova Scotia taking a vote on April 11 on whether or not to strike. The Nova Scotia Teachers Union is negotiating a new collective agreement with their employer—the minister of education and early childhood development—since their old agreement expired Aug. 1, 2023. Bargaining teams for the NSTU and the […]
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‘I don’t think anyone should graduate from university with any degree and not learn this stuff,’ says Indigenous Peoples and Media prof
On your way up the staircase towards the journalism school, on the third floor at the University of King’s College, you pass a poster on the wall that’s larger than you. There are more of these across campus, but this one focuses on what’s through the doors at the top of the stairs. It’s Call […]
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‘Don’t let anybody tell you you can’t,’ says panelist at Black women in politics event
On Wednesday evening, the Black Cultural Centre was filled with buffet tables of food and rows of chairs facing a long table with six microphones. The table of panelists wore their political bona fides with grace and power–all six are Black Nova Scotian women who work, or worked, in politics and community advocacy. They’re here […]