[Image-1] Updated with Dalhousie’s response below. There were at least 15 members of the misogynistic Facebook group that’s rocked Dalhousie’s dentistry school. Right now, 13 male students in the fourth-year dentistry program are suspended from clinical practice and isolated from their classmates because of the sexually violent posts some put onto the DDS Class of […]
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Comfort, safety and the politics of sexualized violence
[Image-1] After weeks of protest and public debate about gender-based violence, a high-profile public event took place at the Halifax Central Library last Thursday. Hosted by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs, it attracted hundreds of Haligonians concerned with the apparent increase in public displays of sexualized violence on HRM campuses. It was […]
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Dal hires outside PR firm for dentistry scandal help
[Image-1] Dalhousie has hired National Public Relations to help deal with the PR disaster on their hands. A leaked email to the CBC says Dal’s been advised they’ll “be into this for at least a year” in dealing with the fallout from 13 dentistry students’ sexually violent Facebook group. The email also purportedly tells Dalhousie […]
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What’s causing sexualized violence at our universities?
A free public panel will take place Thursday night discussing the systemic causes of sexualized violence on Halifax’s university campuses. The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs will put on “How We Live Matters” this Thursday evening at the new library. The talk will look at what’s required to create a cultural shift away […]
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Dal dentistry “gentlemen” suspended from clinic
They’re suspended, kind of. The 13 fourth-year dentistry students at Dalhousie who were involved in the Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen Facebook group have been temporarily suspended from clinical activities by the university. That announcement was made this morning by Dalhousie, just hours before a few hundred gathered on campus to protest the school’s disciplinary […]
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Women are half of Halifax, so make some room
[Image-1] I don’t know many Haligonian women who don’t have a story. A story where they define how this city, supposedly so friendly, can turn on them. I know I have a few. Sometimes I ferociously list them off when people talk about how gender violence is a thing of the past. But that’s not […]
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“What are they going to do…kick every guy out of fourth year?”
Four Dalhousie faculty members have come forward to file a formal complaint against the members of the “Class of DDS 2015” Facebook group. An email released just before noon from DalhousieStatement@gmail.com states the complaint has been made under the university’s code of student conduct, and not their sexual harassment policy. The complaint asks that confidentiality […]
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To my classmates: I’m sorry
[Image-1] Dear Class of DDS4, I know that many of you will not be interested in reading this message and I don’t blame you. If that is the case please keep it for later.  As a previous member of the DDS4 Gentlemen’s group (something I am not proud of and will regret for the […]
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Boys aren’t boys at Dalhousie dental school
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 The ceaseless cascade of gross inhumanity that is 2014 just won’t let up. Dalhousie University’s school of dentistry is facing a lot of questions today after CBC broke the story of a misogynistic Facebook group of students. At least a dozen male students belonged to the now-defunct Class of DDS 2015 Gentleman group, according […]
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Case closed, justice hardly served
[Image-1] UPDATE: This story is about Rehtaeh Parsons. Two men have pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in a case that made international headlines and changed the law in Nova Scotia. It’s the case of a teenage girl The Coast can’t identify due to a publication ban, but trust us—you know her name. Her story […]
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Ghomeshi’s history of violence
[Image-1] Eight women, including local actor Lucy DeCoutere, have now come forward in the media with allegations of physical violence by Jian Ghomeshi. How many more stories are still out there, remain to be seen. Last night, the Toronto Star updated their investigation into the ex-CBC radio star and his alleged history of sexual violence. […]
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Murder at the Halifax Club
Recently, I was lucky enough to attend a function at the Halifax Club. The swank Hollis Street space has been where the city’s most distinguished gentlemen (and, since 1986, women) can meet to toast their successes and discuss whatever it is the upper classes discuss behind closed doors. During this event, the assembled crowd was […]
