Thursday evening, March 10, the 15th day of the Russian invasion into Ukraine, Dalhousie University hosted an online panel discussion on the conflict featuring professors from local universities. Moderator Ruben Zaiotti, the director of the Jean Monnet European Union Centre of Excellence at Dal, opened the panel by explaining how this war could permanently alter […]
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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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Best University / College
Gold Winner Dalhousie University Silver Winner Saint Mary’s University Bronze Winner NSCC Ivany Campus Dalhouse University is the true Canadian university experience. It has ragers in Howe Hall, all nighters in the Killam Library, fairly good sports teams, decent campus watering holes (despite recent shutdowns), it’s close to downtown, close to the ocean, student housing […]
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Gold Winner Dalhousie University Silver Winner Saint Mary’s University Bronze Winner NSCC Raymond E. Ivany Campus (the renamed Waterfront Campus) Dalhousie rang in its historic 200th academic year with a riotous south end homecoming party that saw 22 arrests, accusations of racism from Indigenous students and an attempt to discipline the DSU’s academic and external […]
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Soul on Ice shows how hockey history misses the net
Hockey and the Black Experience screening and panel discussion Thursday, October 12, 6:30pm Saint Mary’s University, McNally Theatre 923 Robie Street free By the time Kwame Damon Mason was six years old, he had already begun to notice how few Black athletes were playing professional hockey. Now, decades later, Mason’s documentary Soul on Ice: Past, […]
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Five nerdy university perks to geek out about
Being a student has its perks—from newfound freedoms and friendships to self-discovery and maybe even learning to do your own laundry. Something not to overlook in that list, though? Embracing your inner geek. In my first week of classes as an undergrad, a professor made an impassioned speech to my classmates and I that we […]
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Gold Winner Dalhousie University Silver Winner Saint Mary’s University Bronze Winner Mount Saint Vincent University Oh, Dalhousie, even when we’re mad at you we can’t help but love you. You foot the $387,220 bill to send nine well-paid, wealthy AF business folk to attend some entrepreneurial accelerator program at MIT (though you promise it’ll be […]
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Gold Winner Dalhousie University Silver Winner Saint Mary’s University Bronze Winner Mount Saint Vincent University
 
Let’s be honest, Dalhousie has had better years. Multiple scandals have plagued the south end’s palace of higher learning over the last several months—from a sexually-violent Facebook group and a culture of misogyny in its dental school, to retired president […]
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Where to live in Halifax
[Image-1] Every year thousands of new students descend on this city with no clue where to find an apartment. The largest concentration inevitably ends up in the south end because it’s so close to Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s. That’s dumb. Halifax is pretty tiny, geographically speaking. We’re an easy city to walk and bike across […]
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Variety is the spice of writing
Friday the 13th just got lucky for Halifax’s literati. Irish-Canadian writer, Emma Donoghue, author of Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter and most famously, Room, is in town to take part in Saint Mary’s annual Cyril Byrne Lecture. Donoghue, who has been publishing books since the 1990s, became a household name in 2010 when Room was released […]
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Yik Yak Halifax mostly just about pooping
[Image-1] “Anybody had sex in the new library yet?” one user asks. “So not ready to be an adult” reads another Yak. Yik Yak is the free mobile app currently causing panic in news articles across the country. The anonymous service allows anyone to publicly post their thoughts, and read what others within a 2.5-kilometre […]
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The Loretta Saunders I know
This piece was originally posted by the Halifax Media Co-op. We thank them for letting us share it. As some of you may know, Loretta Saunders, a 26-year-old Inuk woman from Nunatsiavut (Inuit territory in Labrador), has been missing since Thursday, February 13. Her family and friends first became aware of her disappearance on the […]