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Divest Dal: Examineradio, episode #103

March 17, 2017 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

This week we speak with Simon Greenland-Smith and Cameron Lowe of Divest Dal, a student lobby group working to get Dalhousie University to stop investing in fossil fuels.   Also, Bassam al-Rawi was lost but now he’s found, Stephen McNeil takes a hit in the polls, Canso could be the next Cape Canaveral, and the New […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: basketball, Bassam Al-Rawi, Canso, Dalhousie, Divest Dal, Examineradio, fossil fuels, New York Times, podcast, Polls, Stephen McNeil

Dal researcher studying low sexual interest

Clinical psychologist Natalie Rosen is looking for couples to participate in survey.

February 7, 2017 By Chris Lambie

When women first walk into Natalie Rosen’s private psychology practice in Halifax seeking counseling for their low sexual interest or arousal, they often come alone. “I think a lot of that comes from just our society’s belief that someone has the diagnosis, so they’re the problem,” Rosen said. “But I don’t think that makes a...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Amy Muise, Couples and Sexual Health Lab, Dalhousie, low sexual interest, Natalie Rosen, sexual dysfunction

Local goons: Examineradio, episode #77

September 2, 2016 By Russell Gragg 3 Comments

  This week we speak with Rhiannon Makohoniuk, the Dalhousie Student Union’s Vice-President Internal, about the university’s decision not to fully fund the nascent Sexual Assault Hotline. The university claims that, based on a report they won’t release to the public, the partial funding they offered was adequate. But who needs safe students when you can send billionaires […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Chronicle Herald, Dalhousie, Examineradio, labour, Lisa Roberts, NDP, podcast, racial profiling, sexual assault, Sobeys, strike

We’ll not pay you not to work: Examineradio, episode #48

February 12, 2016 By Russell Gragg 1 Comment

On this week’s episode we speak with striking Chronicle Herald reporter Michael Gorman. When not walking a picket line, Gorman stalks the halls of the Nova Scotia Legislature. We talk about the state of the union at the CH, as well as a recent piece he wrote for the Halifax Examiner on Irving’s unpaid temporary workforce. Gorman […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Chronicle Herald, Dalhousie, Examineradio, Irving, journalism, Michael Gorman, NSCC, podcast, shipbuilding, tuition

Racist Graffiti a Symptom of Systemic Problems at Dalhousie

May 8, 2015 By Moira Donovan

When Kalkidan Gebre found graffiti on a desk in Dalhousie’s Killam library reading “no n*****s allowed #whitepower”, her first response after taking a picture was to scratch it out. She didn’t want anyone else to stumble across it and experience the same shock she had, and in any case she didn’t think anything would come...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Dalhousie

Building on Sand: Master’s Thesis Proposes Design for Sable Island

April 29, 2015 By Moira Donovan

Sable Island exemplifies rootlessness. Made entirely of sand, not only is the surface fluid – the island is itself on the move, as sand is washes away from the Western side and builds up on the East. Not an ideal location on which to build, one would think. But when Matthew Griffin-Allwood was developing a thesis project...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Dalhousie, Sable Island

Students Protest Fee Hikes at Dalhousie Board of Governors Meeting

April 23, 2015 By Moira Donovan

On a rainy Tuesday afternoon this week, the Dalhousie Board of Governors voted to approve a 3 per cent tuition increase. A student rally had been planned for before the meeting to protest the Board’s decisions on issues with misogyny on campus, divestment from fossil fuels, and tuition fees. But in the wake of the...

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Dalhousie’s Board of Governors rejects divestment from greenhouse gas-intensive corporations

November 25, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

by Rachel Ward Dalhousie’s Board of Governors has rejected divestment, at the recommendation of its investment committee. The committee report said divesting would make no impact on climate change and in fact hurt relationships the university has with fossil fuel companies that fund research on campus. Two faculty board members criticized the committee during the...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Dalhousie, Divest Dal, Divestment

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

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