Posts by Matt Stickland
Undervaluing part-time professors
Being a part-time professor is precarious work – and they make up about 50 per cent of the teaching workforce at universities across Canada according to the 2016 study Precarious U. Associate professor of Sociology at Dalhousie University, Karen Foster, conducted the study to try and…
Read MoreREEFER (legislation) MADNESS!
Last fall 4.6 million Canadians celebrated in a blaze of glory as pot became legal. According to Statistics Canada’s 2018 National Cannabis Survey, that’s how many Canadians use cannabis. In…
Read MoreDal’s $55,000 price tag on access to employment information “absolute lie”
Remember that $55,000 price tag Dalhousie University gave the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) for a Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) request about employment at the university? A Dal whistleblower says that the…
Read MoreBeginner’s guide from pot
For those who are well versed in being high, feel free to skip this article. For the dozen of you who waited until cannabis became legal before trying it, here are some helpful tips from a fellow…
Read MoreThe stupidity of the 2%
Editor’s note: Matt Stickland is a retired Officer of the Royal Canadian Navy. There have been a lot of crazy policies coming out of the United States in recent…
Read MoreHalifax sports scene outside of U Sports
Sports fans wanting different fare than the Tigers have three main offerings in this city: the Halifax Mooseheads, Halifax Hurricanes and HFX Wanderers FC. Halifax Mooseheads The Mooseheads are a…
Read MoreThe long shadow of sunny ways
A lot of cheerleading came from Liberal party members and the party faithful as the Liberal party held its 2018 national convention in Halifax, from April 19 to 21. The…
Read MoreReasonable doubts
Ever since we were monkeys, we’ve endeavoured to control and organize our society. And as we evolve physically, we also evolve socially. No longer is it just the biggest, baddest,…
Read MorePressing snooze on the Woke Bae
Since the publication of the sexual encounter between U.S. comedian Aziz Ansari, and a woman using the pseudonym “Grace,” on Babe.net about a month ago, a lot of opinion pieces have been penned. All are well written and point out the glaring problems in the…
Read MoreDSU disability rep resigns
Mary MacDonald is no longer the disability representative on Dal Student Union (DSU) council. In the council meeting last night one of the first motions to be debated was the…
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