Where to buy? Once legal, recreational cannabis will only be sold through specialized Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation stores. There are a total of 12 stores dotted around the province, though customers can also order online for home delivery. The new NSLC on Clyde Street will be the only cannabis-specific store, where customers actually get to […]
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Lessons in scholarly social media
Nowadays, students may look at hashtagged keywords or 280 characters to learn about a school event, versus checking bulletin boards or even email, causing universities to re-evaluate communication methods. “Social media is so important when it comes to connecting with students because you really need to go where they are,” says Kate Elliot, a social […]
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Milking the Student Cash Cow
Many Haligonians probably don’t realize there are three universities and two colleges all within their city’s postage stamp perimeter. Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, is a bustling but somehow still intimate port city, so it can be pretty tough to believe that there’s this multitude of post-secondary opportunity squashed into this beautiful, historic city. […]
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Masuma Khan is making history
Over the last year, Masuma Khan has led thousands of students into the streets to protest high tuition fees, spoke at the local Women’s March on Washington and organized a public vigil after the deadly Quebec City mosque shooting. The 22-year-old is also vice-president academic and external for the Dalhousie Student Union, works with the […]
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Precarious labour is exploiting university educators
University campuses across Nova Scotia are continuing to benefit from contract faculty who face high workloads, low job security and lower wages than tenured professors, leaving a mental health drain on this province’s educators. The common assumption is that contract professors, who Dalhousie Faculty Association president Darren Abramson calls “precarious academic staff,” are mostly graduate […]
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Falling through the tenancy cracks
International students in Halifax say they’re being taken advantage of by one of the city’s largest property rental companies, which seemingly as official policy uses leases in breach of the Tenancy Act for non-Canadian tenants. Jianing Xu says she was asked by Killam Properties to pay rent for her Cathedral Lane apartment in three-month increments. […]
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GOOD LORD, here’s my HODGEPODGE recipe
I can’t believe it’s come to this, but at this point, I have no choice but to attempt to quiet this daily harassment and give everyone my hodgepodge recipe. Hodgepodge is a typical Nova Scotian summertime dish—but of course, you know that already, because you literally won’t stop haranguing me for my hodgepodge recipe for […]
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The 9 habits of highly effective professors
1. Simplify those lessonsAs a chemistry and mathematics student at Dalhousie, Connor Lamont’s classes are often very theory-heavy and difficult to grasp. So he likes professors who can simplify those lessons. “If a professor is able to liken it to a very understandable thing, then that makes it a lot easier to grasp the concepts,” […]
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Wade Smith’s Afrocentric legacy
Andre Fenton barely made it to class in his first two years of high school. But the poet and activist eventually graduated with honours after finding inspiration in an Afrocentric literature course he took his senior year. “If it wasn’t for that class, I would not be doing spoken word poetry,” says Fenton. “It influenced […]
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Small town, global minds
Helen Timbo, 21Dalhousie University, third-year, statistics and chemistryOriginally from Sierra Leone, Timbo’s lived in Halifax for eight years and is the current president of the Dalhousie African Student Association. Her first taste of Halifax was when she arrived in the winter of 2008. “When the cold hit me, I screamed and didn’t want to go […]
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10 essential Halifax fashion accessories
1. Rubber bootsUnless you want to live with perpetual trench foot you better get something waterproof on your tootsies. Sideways rain, deep puddles, swampy green-spaces and a winter that’s more wet-and-melty than white-and-fluffy will make your rubbers a welcome outfit staple. Also somehow socially acceptable? Wearing knee high Hunters when there isn’t a cloud in […]
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Course evaluations underused by students
Every school is different. At Dalhousie, they’re SRIs—Student Ratings of Instruction. At Saint Mary’s, they’re ICEs—Instructor/Course Evaluations. Mount Saint Vincent is still old-school, using paper and pencil, while Dal switched to an online system six years ago (saving a million sheets of paper annually). But each university has the same goal: To get student feedback […]
