The Paris 2024 Olympics are coming to a close this Sunday, Aug. 11, with women’s basketball as the final event that day. The Games have shown us—once again—that sport embodies a mixture of the good, the bad and the neutral. Team Canada has had many highs, including the historic silver medal win by the women’s […]
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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International conference on intersection of science, philosophy, learning on now in Halifax
The Circulating Knowledge: 20 Years On international conference, presented by the University of King’s College, began Wednesday and runs until Saturday, Aug 10. A list of speakers and events can be found here. “The conference is an opportunity for people to look at how knowledge moves around, globally, across cultures, and that it’s not a […]
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Would you make a good French school board member, councillor or mayor?
The elections are coming to town this October, and there’s still time to run for a seat on the Halifax Regional Council or the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial Council. The CSAP is the French-language school board—the only school board in the province—and its board members are elected every four years at the same time as […]
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Bar, restaurant, some festival staff have until Dec 1 to complete newly mandated safe serving training
On Tuesday, bartenders, servers and certain festival staff serving alcohol across the province were given a deadline of Dec. 1 to complete the Serve Right Responsible Beverage Program, offered by the Nova Scotia Tourism Human Resource Council. The Serve Right program costs $69-$85 to complete online. It can also be made available in person, Service […]
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Dal reopens campus Wednesday after multi-day closure following student pro-Palestinian encampment removal
Dalhousie University reopened its Halifax campuses today, Wednesday July 31, after unexpectedly shutting down on Monday following the police removal of a coaltion of pro-Palestinian students who had camped on the Studley quad since May. Halifax Regional Police were called to the university to remove campers from the Kenneth C. Rowe Management building Monday around […]
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Police remove students from inside Dal administrative building Tuesday, without dismantling encampment
On Tuesday July 23, Students for the Liberation of Palestine – Kjipuktuk (SLPK) members held a joint press conference beginning at 4pm with faculty supporters and student union presidents inside an administrative building behind the student encampment at Dalhousie University (Dal). Speakers and supporters stayed inside after the conference wrapped. At 5pm, SLPK members began […]
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Two years after Halifax tree-girdling incident, art show reminds us of ‘importance of human relationships with trees’
Two years ago Thursday, “some asshole broke into the Halifax Public Gardens and vandalized trees,” as captured by a headline that ran July 26, 2022 in the Halifax Examiner. The mystery of who did this is an unsolved whodunit. Two years later, some of the trees that were girdled in the gardens—or intentionally had their […]
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NSCC Akerley Campus opens 100-bed student housing building, says it’s already full for September
Student housing is a piece in the housing crisis puzzle plaguing Halifax and Nova Scotia. On Monday July 22, the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) Akerley Campus officially opened a new 100-bed student housing building that students will begin moving in to this August, for classes starting in September. The building at Akerley is modern, […]
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New MSVU gallery director nearly a year into the job, says ‘no regrets’
A year ago, when Melanie Colosimo started as the new director of the Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) Art Gallery, she was worried about making relationships with students at a school without a fine arts program. Colosimo had spent the last 15 years working in various positions at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design […]
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NSCAD students have two ways to tell union how they feel about demands, potential strike action
On Monday July 15, the Student Union of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (SUNSCAD) emailed all members of the union requesting their participation in a survey released the same day. The SUNSCAD executive and council created this survey to gauge how members are feeling regarding their experience as students at NSCAD overall, such […]
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King’s Students’ Union president says letter from university on divestment, disclosure shuts down conversation
On Thursday, July 11, University of King’s College president William Lahey published a statement to the King’s community writ large on the school’s divestment and disclosure status—which included complying with the university’s Responsible Investing Policy. Within it, he mentioned three student and alumni groups by name that have sent demands, written open letters or, as […]
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King’s president says funds invested in weapons manufacturers reduced to zero
On Thursday, July 11, the president of the University of King’s College (King’s), William Lahey, put out a statement reiterating the university’s Responsible Investment Policy, and providing updated actions on divestment and disclosure, following months of demands received from students and alumni groups in solidarity with Palestine. He shared that the current market value of […]