Education

“It’s important for people to know what rights they don’t have,” Cole Webber says to me on a hot afternoon on Gottingen. It might sound like a strange perspective to have for the new coordinator of Dalhousie Legal Aid’s Tenants Rights Project, but Webber says we are badly in need of an overhaul of our […]

Dalhousie University As the largest university on this list, it’s not surprising that Dal boasts a three-pronged approach to sustainable policy—there’s the university’s sustainability office, another one based in student government and a faculty group focused on weaving sustainability concepts into Dal’s curriculums. To this end, Dal will soon be boasting a College of Sustainability […]

A guard led me into an empty shower area and ordered me to strip. “Drop your clothes in this bag,” he told me. “Then bend over and cough.” I hesitated for the moment it took me to realize he planned to inspect my anus for contraband. “Come on,” the man urged me. “I don’t enjoy […]

Perhaps you forgot to wave goodbye to Ikea on your way past Montreal, yet despite the Bring Ikea to Halifax, NS, Facebook group and its 2,092 members, it’s true: There’s no easy-to-assemble Swedish furniture store in Halifax. But don’t let the lack of easy access to Billy bookcases and cheap European kitchenware discourage you as […]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: When it gets windy, Fenwick Towers sways so much the water sloshes in the toilets. There’s a pool on the top floor of Fenwick that can’t be filled because the weight of the water would topple the building. Or exert so much pressure that tenants two floors […]

“No other province has a waste management plan that bans organics from landfills,” says Jim Bauld proudly. Bauld is manager of solid waste resources for Halifax Regional Municipality. He adds that other Canadian municipalities have only recently started to catch up to Nova Scotia’s success in diverting 54 percent of our waste away from landfills. […]

Don’t be unreasonably afraid of the dark During my first term of university, I never went out after dark. During many of those lonely nights indoors I imagined sunset as opening a Pandora’s box of serial killers, rapists, robbers, flukemen, chupacabra, boogens, ghoulies and, most terrifying, amorous frat trash running wild and with impunity. I […]

Two years ago, I was stealing internet from a neighbour, which allowed me access to her iTunes. The library itself was empty, but her Limewire list was full of the most lowest-common-denominator music ever, all Top 40 club jams—Usher’s “Yeah!,” Justin Timberlake’s “Rock Your Body,” “Lady Marmalade” from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. On one hand, […]

Sometimes we just need some advice from people who aren’t family or friends. A major change in life like going to school is stressful enough that universities have counselling centres set up to help students deal with different issues—whether mental health-related or just that unbearable feeling of loneliness from being away from home. A number […]

It’s that nowhere time when Friday is Saturday but no one acknowledges it, and the bar’s pulse is drunk and sluggish. Dance music throbs like a building-sized headache and the place reeks of stale air and deflated expectations. Even the underage girls look haggard, their face paint drooping, their hair ratted. A cadre of guys […]

The big story through the late part of this year, as colder weather replaces our mild lingering summer days, will be the high cost of heating. In August 2007, the price of oil was just under 60 cents a litre, and today it’s approximately twice that, with prices likely to rise as demand increases with […]