On Saturday night, a few residential city blocks between Coburg and Jubilee Roads were unlike any other. Busier than Pizza Corner after the bars close, bodies packed tighter than Christmas at the Forum in pre-COVID times. But rather than waiting for poutine or shopping for gifts, these people were Dalhousie (and probably King’s and SMU […]
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Breaking the silence on COVID exposures in schools during the fourth wave
In the first 27 days of September, Nova Scotia announced 535 new COVID-19 cases. How many of those were at elementary and high schools, colleges and universities, we simply don’t know. This is because the Nova Scotia government doesn’t require exposure notifications to be issued to the public if everyone who was at an event […]
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The fruit flies in your kitchen are laying about 2,000 eggs a day
It’s summer in Halifax. It’s hot. One morning you wake up and can’t even recognize your kitchen. It’s swarmed with what looks like hundreds of fruit flies. They’re on the ripened bananas you bought yesterday, in your compost bin and on the wine glass from last night. You try to swat them with your hands […]
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Child soldiers Omar Khadr and Ishmeal Beah speak at Dalhousie
It was a dark and stormy night in Halifax, which meant the event hosted by Dalhousie’s Roméo Dallaire Child Soldier Initiative was delayed, as its namesake founder was stuck on the tarmac at Stanfield airport. On Monday, hundreds of Haligonians of all ages gathered at the Rebecca Cohn auditorium for Children’s Rights Upfront: Preventing the […]
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A first-of-its-kind queer STEM conference is in Halifax this weekend
B eing a trans engineering student at Dalhousie’s Sexton campus hasn’t been an easy experience for Maxxim Vigneau. “It was scary to come out in engineering. To have that environment of predominantly straight, cis, white males was very intimidating,” says the 20-year-old. “I was scared that I was going to be ridiculed or judged.” While […]
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Still no booze allowed on Dalhousie campus
Editor’s Note: On November 1, 2019, most alcohol services were restored on Dalhousie University’s Halifax campuses. Update follows original story. After two weeks of suspended alcohol services on Dalhousie’s Halifax campuses, some questions have been answered, but students still have concerns. “In terms of their responses, I still don’t think it’s enough,” said student Maddie […]
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Dalhousie campus pubs can’t serve booze anymore
The future of alcohol on Dalhousie’s Halifax campuses is on hold with the Dalhousie Student Union and the school both giving different reasons for the current alcohol suspension. “The DSU is complying with the university’s request to cease the service of alcohol on campus, despite the DSU making every effort to follow the University Alcohol […]
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Academic advising can keep students on track
Despite their name, academic advisors do more than help students choose courses; they help them have a well-rounded university experience. “The only thing a lot of students have to compare us to are guidance counsellors. There isn’t really something like this in high school, so it’s hard not to have those preconceived notions,” says Heather […]
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NS government to give loan forgiveness to university students who stay in province
S tarting August 1, Nova Scotians undergraduate students attending universities within the province will not have to pay back provincial student loans. The Nova Scotia Loan Forgiveness program promises Nova Scotian students graduating from Nova Scotia universities can have 100 percent of their provincial student loans forgiven. According to the Department of Labour and Advanced […]
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After a nine-month search, Dal’s new president starts in eight months
Dalhousie University’s Board of Governors announced Thursday that Dr. Deep Saini has been elected as the university’s new president and vice-chancellor. He will be only the 12th president in the history of the 200-year-old school. Saini is not the first Dalhousie president to be born outside of North America; he follows inaugural president Thomas McCulloch […]
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The weight of intersectionality
As a university student in Halifax, I walk into a classroom or research lab, looking around eagerly, hoping to see someone who looks like me. I gaze around anxiously, searching to find at least one person who can feel the weight that I’m carrying. I sigh in disappointment, realizing that yet again, I am alone. […]
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International students not here to balance Dalhousie’s budget
Dalhousie’s international students are fighting a yearly 11.1 percent tuition increase in the upcoming 2019-2020 budget. On Tuesday, the budget will go to a vote—if it passes, new Dalhousie international students will be paying up to 44 percent more for tuition in their fourth year than students pay now. “Regardless of the high tuition we […]