Stop me when you disagree: Workplace violence is not appropriate. Disproportionate workplace violence is not appropriate. Those being disproportionately harmed should be included in a discussion about ways to address and prevent workplace violence. Those deciding on appropriate witnesses to include in the conversation about violence in public schools showed their disagreement with that last […]
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Embracing Mi’kmaw concept of reciprocal learning on National Indigenous Peoples Day
National Indigenous Peoples Day, as it’s known today, is celebrated annually on June 21 in Canada. In 1996, Governor General of Canada, Roméo LeBlanc, issued a proclamation declaring the recognition of this day, then known as National Aboriginal Day. However, there’s a third name for June 21: “Freedom Day.” LeBlanc was coining a day of […]
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Mi’kmaw educator shares history, language and culture on X for Indigenous History Month
It all started with Mi’kmaw History Month in 2016. Jarvis Googoo had shared a piece of Mi’kmaw trivia each day that October. On the final day, Oct. 31–his birthday–Googoo shared a story on X, then known as Twitter, about his experience attending his cousin’s high school graduation in his home community of We’koqma’q in Unama’ki/Cape […]
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More support for students at encampment from senate, faculty and alum
Since May 12, support for the encampment on Dalhousie’s front lawn organized by the coalition Students for the Liberation of Palestine-Kjipuktuk(Halifax)–or SLPK–has continued to grow as its space has expanded with tents, teach-ins, banners and gardens. Although it flanks the steps at Dal, the SLPK represents students from five universities across Halifax: the Nova Scotia […]
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Green Arm Band Initiative reminds us that referees are human beings
The other day I was at The Gap and I saw the most disturbing thing. The teenage sales associate was being followed around by this middle-aged man, and—as she tried to do her job—he was correcting her, even yelling at her. He was berating her at every turn. She folded a stack of t-shirts and […]
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NSCAD student union to consider fall tuition strike if disclosure and divestment calls not met
The student encampment for Palestinian liberation continues in Halifax, despite recent police crackdowns at other Canadian university encampments like York University in Ontario and McGill University in Quebec. The student movement across the world calls on their university administrations to disclose and divest financial ties to Israel’s occupation of and war on Gaza. Students from […]
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Dal faculty call for ‘an end to the scholasticide in Palestine’
Graduation season is behind us, in Halifax. But Students for the Liberation of Palestine – Kjipuktuk–or SLPK–are still on campus at Dalhousie University. In May, the SLPK’s calls for divestment and disclosure from Israel were joined by two motions passed by the Dalhousie Faculty Association–or DFA–to take a stand against the war on Gaza. “As […]
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“We don’t feel safe,” read students’ posters at walkout Friday morning
Students at Astral Drive Junior High in Cole Harbour walked out of class Friday morning to protest feeling unsafe, following a recent violent altercation that happened between students in a washroom on Tuesday, May 28. The school was placed in a hold and secure that afternoon while the injured student, Claire Kelly, was removed and […]
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Peter Day wins presidency of teachers’ union Wednesday evening
The results are in and Peter Day has been elected as president-elect of the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union–or NSTU–as of Wednesday, May 29. Day received just over 60% of the vote in his win over Shawn Hanifen, as 69% of the union voted in the electronic run-off ballot. Day has been teaching for 22 years and is […]
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Dalhousie has divested before, nearly 40 years ago
Tents spread in front of the administrative building on Dalhousie’s main Studley Campus are still standing into convocation week two. The zone of tents has been renamed Al Zeitoun University by the coalition of students occupying Dal’s front lawn. “Students for the Liberation of Palestine – Kjipuktuk (Halifax)”–or “SLPK”–is a coalition of students from Dal, […]
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‘We must choose to not lose sight of the world we want to bring into being’
El Jones, doctor of letters. Advocate, poet, professor. On Friday, May 17 at Acadia University in Wolfville, Jones convocated with graduates from the Faculty of Professional Studies and the Faculty of Education. Jones is receiving an honourary doctor of letters for her teaching–she has taught at Dal, NSCC, King’s, SMU, Acadia and currently MSVU, where […]
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