The Dalhousie Gazette

As Team Canada prepares to suit up for the FIFA World Cup’s knockout round, Haligonians are loudly showcasing their support for their men’s national team. During game days, bars and restaurants across the city transform into energetic watch parties full of Haligonians supporting the country’s third World Cup appearance. Despite losing their final group stage match 2-1 against Switzerland on June 24, Canada’s 1-1-1 record in the group stage clinches the club’s ticket to the knockout round of 32.

After months of searching, the University of King’s College board of governors and presidential search committee have named Tim Vine as the university’s next president. Vine is the current president and CEO of North Shore Health Network, a health organization with three hospital sites in rural Ontario communities that provide short and long-term care. He will assume his role as the 26th president of the university on July 13.

Ally Cribb brought laughter and tears to the audience packing the James Dunn Theatre for her last performance as a Dalhousie University student. The fourth-year music student detailed her undergraduate journey through music, a time when she learned to sing in different languages, master diverse styles and found herself. The first set began with a beautiful rendition of “New York State of Mind” by Billy Joel with piano accompaniment by Tom King.

Editor’s note: Gaia Hake is a member of the Dalhousie Gazette Publishing Society’s board of directors. The board of directors has no involvement in the editorial content of the Gazette. Halifax’s first eating disorder therapy centre opened on March 23, offering in-person support for people of all ages. “We can organize and have programs with people here — it’s our own production,” said Shaleen Jones, the executive director of Eating Disorders Nova Scotia.

I’d like to blame the increase in petty theft on the rise of self-checkout counters, but I think public morality is the real cause. The machines may create opportunity, but they don’t make people steal — people make that choice themselves. Shoplifting rates in Canada rose in 2024 for the fourth year in a row. I chalk it up to post-pandemic entitlement.

By: Jonas May, news editor and Dylan Follett, assistant opinions editor Dalhousie University’s board of governors chose not to vote on divestment motions presented by Dalhousie Student Union president Maren Mealey at a March 24 board meeting, instead sending them to the university’s financial committee for review. Mealey tried to add two motions to the meeting’s agenda, calling for divestment from entities related to fossil fuel production, weapons manufacturing and human rights violations.

As I trudge through writing my assignments, I see friends using artificial intelligence to write birthday cards, draft break-up messages to long-term partners and even act as substitute therapists. It makes me question the authenticity of my interactions with those friends — am I forming relationships with people, or the tools they use to speak for them? I’ll admit it, I’m not against AI. I use ChatGPT for help with notes or simple questions, like how long I should thaw my chicken.

Abdullah Al-Jabji is a Palestinian student organizer at the University of Guelph and the founder and chair of Ontario Students Against Austerity, an organization founded in response to the Doug Ford government’s austerity measures. I was initially set to speak online at the national student organizing panel during the Nova Scotia student strike. However, considering Ontario’s recent cuts to education, I wanted to visit Dalhousie University and observe the entire strike in person.

This year at Dalhousie University was bookended by unrest and resistance, beginning with a faculty lockout and ending with a provincial student strike. But student activism at Dalhousie University is nothing new. For decades, students have raised their voices for social justice issues. Digging through the Dalhousie Gazette’s archives, history shows a pattern that Dalhousie students have always worked for a better future and pushed for change.

Some students at Dalhousie University say the recent Nova Scotia student strike was ineffective and are hesitant about the movement’s future. Nelle Gadsden, a first-year Dalhousie French and social anthropology student, said the strikers crossed a line. At times, organizers antagonized students who attended class during the strike, calling them “scabs,” a term referring to individuals who cross the picket line.