Since May 12, support for the encampment on Dalhousie’s front lawn organized by the coalition Students for the Liberation of Palestine-Kjipuktuk(Halifax)–or SLPK–has continued to grow as its space has expanded with tents, teach-ins, banners and gardens. Although it flanks the steps at Dal, the SLPK represents students from five universities across Halifax: the Nova Scotia […]
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School violence is up, reporting is weak, majority of teachers at ‘high risk’ of harm, finds audit
In the past seven years, schools across the province have reported a 60% increase in violence. What’s more, weaknesses in what is reported are making it impossible for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development–EECD–to know the full extent of violence in schools. That’s according to the latest from Nova Scotia’s auditor general, Kim […]
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NSCAD student union to consider fall tuition strike if disclosure and divestment calls not met
The student encampment for Palestinian liberation continues in Halifax, despite recent police crackdowns at other Canadian university encampments like York University in Ontario and McGill University in Quebec. The student movement across the world calls on their university administrations to disclose and divest financial ties to Israel’s occupation of and war on Gaza. Students from […]
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Dal faculty call for ‘an end to the scholasticide in Palestine’
Graduation season is behind us, in Halifax. But Students for the Liberation of Palestine – Kjipuktuk–or SLPK–are still on campus at Dalhousie University. In May, the SLPK’s calls for divestment and disclosure from Israel were joined by two motions passed by the Dalhousie Faculty Association–or DFA–to take a stand against the war on Gaza. “As […]
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“We don’t feel safe,” read students’ posters at walkout Friday morning
Students at Astral Drive Junior High in Cole Harbour walked out of class Friday morning to protest feeling unsafe, following a recent violent altercation that happened between students in a washroom on Tuesday, May 28. The school was placed in a hold and secure that afternoon while the injured student, Claire Kelly, was removed and […]
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Peter Day wins presidency of teachers’ union Wednesday evening
The results are in and Peter Day has been elected as president-elect of the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union–or NSTU–as of Wednesday, May 29. Day received just over 60% of the vote in his win over Shawn Hanifen, as 69% of the union voted in the electronic run-off ballot. Day has been teaching for 22 years and is […]
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Dalhousie has divested before, nearly 40 years ago
Tents spread in front of the administrative building on Dalhousie’s main Studley Campus are still standing into convocation week two. The zone of tents has been renamed Al Zeitoun University by the coalition of students occupying Dal’s front lawn. “Students for the Liberation of Palestine – Kjipuktuk (Halifax)”–or “SLPK”–is a coalition of students from Dal, […]
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‘We must choose to not lose sight of the world we want to bring into being’
El Jones, doctor of letters. Advocate, poet, professor. On Friday, May 17 at Acadia University in Wolfville, Jones convocated with graduates from the Faculty of Professional Studies and the Faculty of Education. Jones is receiving an honourary doctor of letters for her teaching–she has taught at Dal, NSCC, King’s, SMU, Acadia and currently MSVU, where […]
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Dal and MSVU “Students for the Liberation of Palestine” release demands to divest and disclose at “Al-Zeitoun” university
Students from Dal and MSVU have released their own calls for divestment and disclosure Thursday, joining the student-led coalition with colleagues at King’s, SMU and NSCAD who have been camping on Dal’s front lawn since Sunday, May 12. They are calling for “Ceasefire Now,” “Free Palestine,” and to “Stop The War Machine.” Related Related On […]
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No start date for new child and youth advocate to review children in care
On Wednesday May 15, the Public Accounts Committee met to discuss the auditor general’s recent report released May 7, called the Health, Safety and Well-Being of Children Placed in Temporary Emergency Arrangements and Child and Youth Care Homes. Members of the opposition, the Liberals and the NDP, were given the morning to ask questions stemming […]
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Nova Scotia children staying in temporary emergency care increased exponentially over six years, finds audit
On Tuesday, the auditor general of Nova Scotia, Kim Adair, released a report on how well children are cared for when they’re at their most vulnerable: when they’re taken into temporary emergency arrangements or child and youth care homes. How does this happen? The provincial Children and Family Services Act determines when and how children at […]
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Student encampment at Dal begins Sunday following release of demands over the weekend
T Updated May 14 with *** below. ents are up in front of the Henry Hicks administration building on Dal’s Studley Campus, organized by a coalition of students across four Halifax universities–NSCAD, SMU, Dal and King’s–using the name “Students for the Liberation of Palestine.” They have renamed the space of campus lawn “Al-Zeitoun” University, written […]
