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Inequality expert: “The US is looking more like what we believed is the third world”

February 22, 2015 By Moira Donovan

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...

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Surviving racism: African Nova Scotian women talk about the daily racism they’ve experienced

February 21, 2015 By Moira Donovan

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...

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Free university tuition? Not so fast, says StudentsNS

February 20, 2015 By Moira Donovan

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...

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Pink Triangle Day: reclaiming sex education

February 14, 2015 By Moira Donovan

“I’m not going to teach you how to put on a condom and things like this,” said Carmella Farahbakhsh “but I’m going to focus and give space to topics that aren’t covered and that some people may have never heard about.” Sex education has come a long way since the teaching of abstinence. In Ontario,...

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Divest Dal takes Valentine Day-themed action directly to President Richard Florizone

February 14, 2015 By Moira Donovan

In a corridor in the Henry Hicks building on Dalhousie Campus, members of Divest Dal stand around a table. The table’s surface is covered in oversized valentines bearing divestment-themed messages: “It’s not you, it’s fossil free” and “I think we should see other sources.” A heart-shaped box of chocolates is emptied and then filled with...

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