Education

Get it out of the way early. You probably already have an opinion about Douglas Sparks, and it almost certainly isn’t good. That’s OK. Get in line. In January, Sparks, the Halifax Regional School Board’s African-Nova Scotian member, transformed what one newspaper reporter described as a “seemingly innocuous motion” to change the order of seating […]

In the four years Paul Greenhalgh has been president at NSCAD, the school has seen some major changes. Student enrollment has increased from about 600 to 1,000 students. It has begun development of a new campus along the Halifax waterfront, which will house programs such as sculpture, ceramics and glass. And the new fashion and […]

If CKDU-FM doesn’t reach its fundraising goals for this year, it will be forced to make cutbacks to staff and programming, says Michael Catano, station coordinator of the Dalhousie radio station. He says the goal of the October 21 to 29 fundraising drive was to raise $50,000 and the station received only $32,000 in pledges. […]

Joni Stewart is a 27-year-old single mother of two children, aged 8 and 12. Recently, her son TJ had an ear infection and was treated at the IWK by a doctor who saw potential in Stewart and her children. He set the children up in tae kwon do classes and told Stewart about a new […]

In it, a single word can pull double or even triple-duty, serving completely different functions, depending on its context. The recent decision by the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board to cancel a high school trip to Neptune Theatre’s production of To Kill a Mockingbird provides a unique opportunity to watch the English language at work; here […]

Sketch comedy, lawyer dramas and trailer parks have all had their day on Canadian television. But for 25 years, there has been Degrassi. “I loved Lucy,” says Michele Byers, editor of the just released anthology Growing Up Degrassi: Television, Identity and Youth Cultures. “Lucy was kind of an ideal for a lot of little girls. […]