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Twenty + Change
If you want to feel reassured that our cities are in good hands, go see Twenty + Change, a travelling exhibition of projects by emerging Canadian architects, urban and landscape designers. The inaugural show at Dalhousie’s new Architecture and Planning faculty exhibition space kicked off Monday with a lecture by Ian Chodikoff, editor of Canadian […]
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Dal may outsource international student instruction
A controversial private school for international students may open at Dalhousie University. The university administration wants to make a deal with Navitas, a private Australian company, to recruit international students who can not meet Dal admissions standards. Navitas would bring those students to campus and give them two years of instruction. The company would use […]
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Nova Scotia’s Biomass mess
It’s just a report, not policy yet, but the Stakeholder Consultation Process for a New Renewable Energy Strategy for Nova Scotia, Final Report, by Dal profs David Wheeler and Michelle Adams, makes some good recommendations. It ambitiously states that 40 percent of our energy can be from renewable sources by 2020. Most notably, the report […]
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Emily Rideout Post-Copenhagen Debrief
I asked Sierra Club Atlantic representative and Dal student Emily Rideout for her post-Copenhagen thoughts. What were her feelings about the conference and the outcome, and what’s next for the climate movement? Here is Emily’s response: There was some progress made in terms of process that may help us create a real climate deal within […]
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Homeless report issued
Fifty-three percent of Halifax’s homeless population has been diagnosed with at least one form of clinical mental illness. Seventy-two percent have dealt with serious depression or anxiety, and 48 percent have seriously considered taking their own lives.Those are the findings catalogued in a report issued Tuesday by the Community Action on Homelessness. The findings are […]
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Dalhousie’s tea-riffic drinking society
Hot tea means comfort. A different kind of comfort than coffee or, say, vodka Jello shots. And while Orientation Week rears its over-excited head around the campus of Dalhousie University, members of the Dal Tea Drinkers’ Society hope students can take a break from the bedlam of first semester to take solace in the comfort […]
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NSPIRG’s Re-orientation plan
Traditionally, universities welcome new students with a week’s worth of orientation tedium—think tours of the campus, barbeque on the quad with 3,000 other awkward frosh, boring welcoming speeches by academic pooh-bahs. A sleepy student is a prepared student, is the idea. But the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group is breaking that mold with its […]
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Bringing peace to Dalhousie
By itself, a military approach to conflict and international security issues won’t solve those problems, says Shelly Whitman. That’s a remarkable attitude coming from someone employed by Dalhousie’s Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, which is funded primarily through the Department of National Defence, publishes the war machine-friendly Canadian Naval Review and hosts regular conferences on […]
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Health report fails to analyze root causes
If Freddie Mercury were alive, I’d ask his opinion of the Nova Scotia government’s 51-page report on suicide that was finally released last week. The Queen singer, who died of AIDS in 1991, might thrust out his hairy chest, give me his trademark, buck-toothed smile, and belt out “Don’t Try Suicide”: “So you think it’s […]
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NSPIRG faces funding cut
A group of students led by a recruiter for the provincial Young Progressive Conservatives is putting NSPIRG’s feet to the fire. The left-leaning Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group, a fixture on Dalhousie’s campus for nearly 20 years, faces loss of its core funding from the Dalhousie Student Union if a controversial motion passes at […]
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Tracking our eco-footprints
Environmentalism is commonly criticized for replacing an overly human-centred worldview with one that ignores, even alienates, people. The ecological mindset is pie-in-the-sky long-term soothsaying at the expense of our immediate needs, critics say. Speaking with Daniel Rainham, an environmental science professor at Dalhousie University, it becomes apparent how wrong those critics are. Rainham is at […]
