With men in powerful positions running amok, if ever we needed a superhero to swoop in and save the world, it’d be now. Luckily, there were over 800 of them crammed inside the Halifax Convention Centre on Friday. They wore different disguises—stilettos, blazers, wide rimmed glasses—and went by different aliases—communications manager, non-profit director, family lawyer—but […]
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School violence is up, reporting is weak, majority of teachers at ‘high risk’ of harm, finds audit
In the past seven years, schools across the province have reported a 60% increase in violence. What’s more, weaknesses in what is reported are making it impossible for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development–EECD–to know the full extent of violence in schools. That’s according to the latest from Nova Scotia’s auditor general, Kim […]
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Everyseeker Festival bringing diverse musical acts to the stage June 13-16
The Everyseeker festival has just about everything you could classify as music, and that’s no exaggeration. Formerly known as the Obey Convention, Everyseeker will see performances throughout Halifax from some of the most creative, genre-bending acts across the country, with half of their lineup being local artists. There is guaranteed to be something for […]
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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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Clever Hopes meditates on memories in sophomore album, ‘New Kind of Familiar’
On the first Clever Hopes album, singer-songwriter Andrew Shaver walked listeners through a tumultuous break-up and how he navigated that period of his life. Shaver’s sophomore release, New Kind of Familiar, sees the Dartmouth-based folk rocker delving further into his own life and how far he’s come since 2022’s Artefact. He has a wife, a […]
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Healthy Relationships for Youth Program teaches students to stop violence before it occurs
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to confirm that there is something very amiss in HRM schools. The threat of violence seems to be looming like a dank fog. Ongoing bomb threats and fear of violence has led many teens to go as far as arming themselves. Just last week, students staged a walkout, waving […]
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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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The Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is a weird and challenging “gem-finder”
The Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival (HIFF) began partially as a response to the Atlantic International Film Festival, or rather, a response to what the Atlantic International Film Festival wasn’t. It was a place to show cool, innovative films that were often left off the program of more mainstream festivals. Eighteen years later, it’s still going […]
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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 […]
