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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Frosh weeks move (mostly) online in the age of COVID
On Thursday, Premier Stephen McNeil announced that all students returning to Nova Scotia from outside the Atlantic bubble for school will need to receive three negative COVID-19 test results before heading to any in-person events on campus. This applies to both students in residence and living off-campus. “If students are asymptomatic, these tests should help us […]
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Talking climate change basics with Halifax climate scientist Jeffrey Taylor
T he Coast sat down with local climate scientist Jeffrey Taylor to talk the basics of climate change. His key points about what climate change is—and isn’t—all centre around the idea that “for the most part, we’ve all accepted that we as humans have impacted the planet, it’s caused the climate to change,” he says. […]
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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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Welcome to Harbourdale
Earlier this year, the television landscape felt bleak, rudderless without a good teen drama to act as guilty-pleasure viewing while we awaited the return of Serious Dramas like Twin Peaks and Game of Thrones. What a treat, then, when Riverdale landed on the scene—and wasn’t only a guilty pleasure, but a full-on feast in its […]
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Ray Ivany finally gets his name on something of value
Embracing the only real tangible result of the Ivany Report—using the word “Ivany”—the Nova Scotia Community College is honouring Ray Ivany. To that end, NSCC’s waterfront campus will henceforth be known as the Raymond E. Ivany campus. The bold rebrand was announced during a ceremony Tuesday in Dartmouth. “NSCC is a place where youth are […]
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NSCC raises a class
The Nova Scotia Community College’s campus in Kentville is bearing more fruit than ever before. Almost 10 years ago, the school was approached by provincial wine industry organizations—folks like the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and the Grape Growers Association of Nova Scotia hoped the college would look into the training needs of the industry. […]
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Manifest destiny: NSCC music business students strut their stuff
“The Halifax music industry is overflowing with incredible, underrated musicians who are yet to be discovered,” says Emma Cassidy, one of the 21 students in this year’s edition of the Nova Scotia Community College‘s Music Business Program. Tonight at The Marquee and The Seahorse (2037 Gottingen Street, 10pm, $8/$5), students in the program are putting on […]
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Battling depression often a world of silence and emptiness
[Image-1] Dexter Nyuurnibe knows how damaging the silence surrounding mental illness can be—so he decided to speak up. The NSCC broadcast journalism student has presented at schools, universities and even given a TEDx Talk. This year, Nyuurnibe will be the MC for the Jack Summit, an event which brings 200 students from across the country […]
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Count on Fresh Twenty One
My mother studied baking and pastry art at NSCC’s Akerley campus. In the late 1980s all of us kids let go of her apron strings, so she took those strings in her own hands, tied them a little tighter and set off to master croissants and cakes, tortes and tuiles. While she was attending NSCC, […]
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Come on, teacher
[Image-1] Staffing troubles have fired up at the Nova Scotia Community College’s IT campus, and it’s the students who may end up burned. According to students, instructor David Jellicoe, faculty at the Leeds Street Institute of Technology, has been let go by administrators for copying his lessons wholesale from online sources. Jellicoe was up until […]
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Jazz Fest: Samba Nova and NSCC in the Afternoon
If it wasn’t for the matching green shirts and the colourful drums of varying sizes they held in their hands, one would never guess that the members of Samba Nova were all part of the same muscial posse. The Brazilian percussion collective is a multicultural, multi-generational group, with members ranging in age from 20 to […]
