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 […]
Prohibition
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The women of prohibition
When it comes to female names in bootlegging, you’re more likely to see them attached to a boat than to an actual human being. Helen G. MacLean, Nellie J. Banks, Rosella, Isabel, Stella and Josephine—these are ships, not people. Women are all over prohibition histories, but they’re often unnamed figures—archetypes of virtue clutching their pearls […]
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Updated: Cannabis dispensaries raided by Halifax police
Update: Coastal Cannapy was raided a second time on Saturday, November 25. Police say three men were arrested at the scene without incident. They’re facing one count each of possession for the purpose of trafficking marijuana and hash. Members of the Special Enforcement Section of the Integrated Criminal Investigation Division raided two different Halifax cannabis dispensaries […]