International students struggling to return to campus

As Dalhousie University prepares to welcome students back on campus, international students struggle with unclear government policies and slow university responses.  Returning international students have received conflicting, confusing and late information from […]

Canada grows, while NS stagnates

The population of Canada has been steadily growing, but this isn’t the case for Atlantic Canada. In the past 25 years, Canada’s population has grown over 25 per cent while Nova Scotia […]

A long-awaited party

Chaudhry family: a part of the community. Photo by Katrina Pyne

The Chaudhrys celebrate their eligibility for Canadian citizenship The hall of St. Andrew’s United Church was overtaken by the smell of cumin and tumeric. A long table laden with every […]

Local family no longer faces deportation

Photo by Sébastien Labelle from chaudhrysolidarity.wordpress.com

Chaudhry family gains citizenship after eight year long battle Fakhira and Chaudhry Roouf have lived in Halifax for the last eight years with their three children. They have a dream […]

Worst of Halifax: Unwanted guests

Pier 21 a playground for Kenney’s racist hypocrisy Jane Kirby, Opinions Contributor   On January 20, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney unveiled The Wheel of Conscience monument at […]

Park51 debate

David Bush, Opinions Contributor   This September 11 will mark the ninth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and The Pentagon. Unfortunately, instead of remembering the dead, and […]

New immigrants leaving Nova Scotia

By Joshua Brown, Staff Contributor Atlantic Canada has more recent immigrants leaving than any other of region of Canada. Academics in the Dalhousie department of sociology and anthropology are trying to […]

From Nigeria to Dal

Oluronke Taiwo says she knows only too well the sting of racism. The successes in her career in medical microbiology in Nigeria, where she taught and published at the University […]

The lost demographic

Fadi Hamdan has come a long way from Jordan. Only three years after arriving in Canada, the 20-year-old is now a youth worker at the local YMCA Centre for Immigrant […]