What does a student association do? It’s a question that even current students might be hard pressed to answer. Student associations are often understood in name alone – as unions or governments – but Michael Hughes, a Queen’s PhD student who prepared an independent report on student association governance, says that this understanding of what...
A mirror into the shattered soul: Morning File, Wednesday, February 25, 2015
新闻竞争ws Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Snow Ten to 20 centimetres today, says Environment Canada, but Peter Coade is predicting just five to 10 centimetres. 2. Africville Former residents of Africville will appear in court today, trying to convince a judge that their class-action suit against the city has merit. Reports […]
Sidewalks around Dalhousie University are completely free of ice
We’ve heard the excuses: it’s an unprecedented winter, the rapid freeze caught everyone off guard, it would cost too much to clear the sidewalks like you cleared yours…. Well, I’ve heard that the sidewalks around Dalhousie University were in good condition, so after the council meeting this afternoon, I went to check them out. Here’s […]
How to properly clean up the ice: Morning File, Tuesday, February 24, 2015
新闻竞争ws Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Harley Lawrence Ugly details about the murder of Harley Lawrence were revealed in court yesterday. Lawrence was the man with schizophrenia who lived on the streets of Berwick. Blair Rhodes of the CBC reports: A homeless man who was murdered in Nova Scotia more […]
The bridge to nowhere: Morning File, Monday, February 23, 2015
新闻竞争ws Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Bridge shuttle bus Halifax Transit has published its twice-annual tweak of bus schedules. The biggest change is a huge one: In anticipation of impending evening Macdonald Bridge closures during reconstruction, as of today, after 6:30pm Sundays through Thursdays, all the buses that normally cross the […]
Inequality expert: “The US is looking more like what we believed is the third world”
It doesn’t take much to be well off in global terms: “Even the poorest Americans make it above the median” said Branko Milanovic. The disparity with the rest of the world is even more pronounced in more egalitarian countries — the bottom one percent in Denmark, Milanovic pointed out, is still better off than the top...
Surviving racism: African Nova Scotian women talk about the daily racism they’ve experienced
Barbara Hamilton-Hinch’s family has been in Nova Scotia for eight generations. Yet what for many people would provide a feeling of rootedness hasn’t been enough to change the fact that Hamilton-Hinch has often felt alienated from her home province because of the colour of her skin. Before a room packed with supporters, students, and members...
Disengagement theory: Morning File, Saturday, February 21, 2015
新闻竞争ws Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. More on alleged mall shooting plotters Maggie Gagnon, a childhood friend of James Gamble, the man who was reportedly connected to the thwarted mall shooting plot and who was found dead in his Timberlea home, tells the CBC that Gamble and Randall Shepherd, the […]
Free university tuition? Not so fast, says StudentsNS
The debate over tuition fees often dominates the discussion over accessible post secondary education. Yet not everyone agrees that the best way to ensure accessibility is through the elimination of those fees. On February 17, StudentsNS, an alliance of post-secondary student associations representing nearly 38,000 students from universities and colleges across the province, released the vision...
Fire and brimstone: Morning File, Friday, February 20, 2015
新闻竞争ws Government On campus Noticed In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Kaylin Diggs Devon Downey, 23, was charged yesterday with manslaughter for the 2012 death of 26-year-old Kaylin Diggs. Diggs was killed in a post-bar fight just before 4am on August. 11, 2012, on the corner outside Durty Nelly’s. Downey turned himself, and was then released on bail […]
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