Gaining overseas work experience while attending university may sound appealing, but some Dalhousie University international students say they’re having trouble completing this mandatory part of their school program because they can’t find a job here in Canada. Yuxi Tang is one of them. After months of fruitless job hunting, Tang is giving herself a few […]
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Course evaluations underused by students
Every school is different. At Dalhousie, they’re SRIs—Student Ratings of Instruction. At Saint Mary’s, they’re ICEs—Instructor/Course Evaluations. Mount Saint Vincent is still old-school, using paper and pencil, while Dal switched to an online system six years ago (saving a million sheets of paper annually). But each university has the same goal: To get student feedback […]
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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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Student issues are real this election
Something I hear over and over is how apathetic students and youth are. As a young person, I am frustrated and insulted by this because I know that it isn’t true. I’ve been working with the Canadian Federation of Students-Nova Scotia and an amazing group of student organizers to help engage young people in the […]
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Who’s afraid of social justice?
[Image-1] I’m a university professor and I don’t often give trigger warnings in my classes. My decision to use them or not isn’t ideological, it’s contextual. Even though I’m the instructor and the one with the PhD, the classroom doesn’t belong only to me. Students have responsibilities to me and each other; I’m also accountable […]
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King’s student union addresses racism after cancelling Wu-Tang Clan night
The University of King’s College Students’ Union is holding a public forum on racism after a popular campus bar event, Wu-Tang Clan Night, was cancelled due to concerns about white students singing along to racial slurs. An October 23 Facebook post on the event page by black King’s student Julia-Simone Rutgers quickly garnered attention from […]
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Bold innovations in student debt
[Image-1] Last year, Nikki Russell-Jamieson decided to chase her dream of going back to school. To make that dream a reality, the 28-year-old single mother and full-time undergrad at Mount Saint Vincent University is going to incur an enormous debt. Tuition at MSVU is expected to increase by roughly 20 percent before she’ll be able […]
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How billionaire John Risley profits off of private student loans
[Image-1] A billionaire seafood magnate may have found the secret to solving Nova Scotia’s economic woes: issue high-interest student loans through a private company and then sue any students who can’t pay you back. John Risley, president of Clearwater Fine Foods, is one of nine highly successful (re: rich) business figures being sent to attend […]
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The Halifax Dump and Run is back this Sunday
[Image-1] The municipality’s biggest yard sale, the 15th annual Halifax Dump and Run, is set to kick off this Sunday and 2016’s haul is sure to bring back some memories for you ‘90s kids. Having commandeered a small classroom in the Loyola building of Saint Mary’s University (as well as an impressive chunk of the […]
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Jamie Baillie calls for more support for survivors of sexual assault
[Image-1] Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie is trying to tighten the province’s sexual assault legislation. The PC Caucus is introducing two bills this week at Province House to try and improve the protection of victims’ rights, and to change the rules of reporting sexual assaults at Nova Scotia’s university and college campuses. “They’re […]
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One-on-one with Stephen McNeil
[Image-1] Earlier this month premier Stephen McNeil joined other Canadian premiers on the other side of the country for the much-publicized first ministers conference in Vancouver with prime minister Justin Trudeau. Those meetings covered such environment-related topics as climate change and carbon pricing, and were meant to lay the foundation for a national climate strategy. […]
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Mount Allison will now only cut gender studies funding by half
[Image-1] Changing directions slightly from last week, Mount Allison University has now decided to cut its gender studies budget by 50 instead of 100 percent. According to CBC, the Sackville, New Brunswick school has now committed $12,000 to its women’s and gender studies program after student outcry over proposed budget adjustments that would have effectively […]