“Do you feel a sense of belonging as a Black student at SMU? Do you feel valued?” The Black Inclusion Strategy Working Group at Saint Mary’s University asked Black students, staff and faculty these and other questions while compiling the first-ever study on the barriers faced by SMU’s Black community and their experiences of racial […]
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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Jeff Arsenault and Katherine Howlett re-elected as French school board trustees in HRM
As of noon on Sunday, Oct. 20—the day after election day—Katherine Howlett and Jeff Arsenault had received enough votes to be re-elected as French school board trustees representing Halifax on the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial (CSAP). According to the Halifax Municipality’s unofficial election results, Howlett has 3,985 votes, and Arsenault has 2,568 votes to hold […]
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Women in sports business speaker series begins this week at SMU
Saint Mary’s University (SMU) is continuing to celebrate 50 years of women’s varsity sport at the university with their annual monthly speaker series, called “She Leads the Game: Women Shaping Sport Business.” The series will feature women who work in the field of sport business, including executives, journalists, broadcasters, writers, institute chairs, researchers and business […]
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Thanksgiving: off but not paid or not off at all?
“When I tell workers here, in retail stores or coffee shops or anywhere that on Monday, if they’re not working, they’re not going to be paid, they look at me as if I’m crazy,” says Judy Haiven, writer, labour activist, organizer and retired professor from Saint Mary’s University’s Department of Management in the Sobey School […]
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Meet CSAP candidate Marc Pinet
It’s municipal election season, meaning it’s also time to elect new French school board (or Conseil) trustees. As of this week, advance voting has begun, with early online and phone voting available now until Oct. 16. Find HRM voting information here. CSAP candidates across 10 districts run in municipal elections to represent their districts while […]
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Meet CSAP candidate Katherine Howlett
It’s municipal election season, meaning it’s also time to elect new French school board (or Conseil) trustees. As of this week, advance voting has begun, with early online and phone voting available now until Oct. 16. Find HRM voting information here. CSAP candidates across 10 districts run in municipal elections to represent their districts while […]
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Meet CSAP candidate Jean-Philippe Bourgeois
It’s municipal election season, meaning it’s also time to elect new French school board (or Conseil) trustees. As of this week, advance voting has begun, with early online and phone voting available now until Oct. 16. Find HRM voting information here. CSAP candidates across 10 districts run in municipal elections to represent their districts while […]
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Meet CSAP candidate Jeff Arsenault
It’s municipal election season, meaning it’s also time to elect new French school board (or Conseil) trustees. As of this week, advance voting has begun, with early online and phone voting available now until Oct. 16. Find HRM voting information here. CSAP candidates across 10 districts run in municipal elections to represent their districts while also […]
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Who should you vote for in the CSAP elections?
It’s municipal election season and advance voting has begun. Early online and phone voting is available now until Oct. 16, and two days of advance in-person voting will happen on Oct. 12 and 15, ahead of the paper ballot election day on Oct. 19. Find HRM voting information here. Related In Nova Scotia, municipal election […]
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SMU celebrates women in sport with conference and film premiere
Kick off the sixth annual Women in Business Conference put on by Saint Mary’s University and their Sobey School of Business, and SMU’s homecoming, this Thursday with two, um, kick-ass events: Game On! Celebrating Women in Sport Business is an all-day event Oct. 3, celebrating women “in all aspects of sports—athletes, coaches, executives and the […]
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Truth, reconciliation and sport this Mi’kmaq History Month
October is Mi’kmaq History Month across Mi’kma’ki—the land of the Mi’kmaq—which includes all of present-day Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, central and eastern New Brunswick, the Gaspé Peninsula and Newfoundland. This is an opportunity to celebrate the living history, culture and traditions of the Mi’kmaq, who have lived here for over 11,000 years, and to […]
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Second HoCo party hosted by Dal on Dal campus this Saturday
Dalhousie University and the Dal Student Union have teamed up for another year of school-sanctioned fun on campus. To avoid the large, unsanctioned street parties of years gone by, the university is hosting—mostly sports—events on Saturday, September 28, from noon until sunset. According to an emailed statement from Dal, Saturday’s events include: A Dal Tigers […]