Canada
Women’s March on Halifax
What began as a grassroots project, transformed into an international movement, and reached the Canadian eastern shore on Saturday. Known as the Women’s March on Washington, Canadians from all over the country joined their American counterparts in protest. Haligonians and Maritimers alike protested in front of Halifax City Hall to show solidarity to stand up…
Read MoreDexter Nyuurnibe: Halifax’s mental health warrior for youth
Dexter Nyuurnibe was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and grew up in a single-parent household. His father, originally from Ghana, is the only parental figure he can recall. He remembers a childhood of travelling abroad, but also his first experiences with mental health issues. “I can still remember being in grade two or three, where there…
Read MoreChanges to Canadian Blood Services guidelines highlight need for new donors
Starting Dec. 10, female blood donors in Canada will be asked to wait 84 days until their next donation, and male donors to wait 56 days, due to the need for the body to build up iron stores in the blood. The changes came after Canadian Blood Services led research and surveys on female blood…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Week panel portrays the complainant’s side of Ghomeshi trial
From March 7-12, International Women’s Week 2016 took place around the world. At Dalhousie, students, professors and community members saw this week as an opportunity to open the discussion up and talk about wider cultural issues – those that affect women and men every day. Former gender and women’s studies student Andrea England was one…
Read MoreMilitary grade flashlight still available to public!
You know how after someone takes a picture of you at night with the flash on, it takes like 3 minutes to see properly again? Now imagine that flash is 100x brighter and it doesn’t turn off. You’d have the ability to disorient any would be attacker with the push of a button. That’s what…
Read More9 reasons President Trump deserves a 9th Term
1) Made American Great Again Americans love their founding fathers. As a nation, America has always turned to their 17th century wisdom for contemporary American issues, such as gun control and abortion. President Trump has successfully taken Americans back to a time that has been highly regarded by the country as having men so intelligent…
Read MoreCanadian Forces Solves Fat Problem
The Canadian Forces used to have a problem with it’s members being fat, but that all changed when they lowered the physical fitness requirements. “It’s amazing!” Exclaims Capt(N) Jones, base commander of CFB Halifax, “we used to have these land walruses waddle out of their PT test unfit, but now they waddle out fighting fit!”…
Read MoreSex sells
I’m generally not surprised when I hear about some new way in which the media is trying to objectify women. The industry generally lives and dies by the idea that sex sells, and hey, it’s true—they wouldn’t do some of the gross things they do if the public wasn’t responding to it. But this week,…
Read MoreStudents against Israelis
Much of political discourse on campus takes place in a vacuum: local municipal issues notwithstanding, most discussions and conclusions have no real consequence on the average student. The “Israeli-Palestinian debate” is no different. Even the most vocal proponents and opponents of whichever side go to bed knowing they will wake up to a cold Haligonian…
Read MoreWill the new government bring more research funding to Dal?
Justin Trudeau was elected on the promise of change. Universities across the country are now waiting to hear which of these changes will affect them. The Liberal leader pledged to commit hundreds of million dollars to fund research all over the country. What are the chances that Dalhousie will benefit? It’s hard to say at…
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