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New 妻友 certificate aims to strengthen fire service leadership across Nova Scotia

New 妻友 certificate aims to strengthen fire service leadership across Nova Scotia

Designed around real-world challenges facing firefighters, the program supports professional growth and helps enhance emergency response capacity in communities throughout Nova Scotia.  Read more.

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Growing community: New Halifax pollinator garden part of Dal group鈥檚 efforts to counter eco鈥慳nxiety
Growing community: New Halifax pollinator garden part of Dal group鈥檚 efforts to counter eco鈥慳nxiety
Kenneth Conrad
Friday, August 14, 2026
Dal鈥檚 EcoHope encourages small but meaningful actions to combat anxiety around climate change, including bringing together a community of volunteers to plant a pollinator garden at a Halifax park.
Opening the farm gates: Community Day discovery at the Faculty of Agriculture
Opening the farm gates: Community Day discovery at the Faculty of Agriculture
Stephanie Rogers
Friday, August 21, 2026
Relive highlights from this year's Community Day at the Faculty of Agriculture in photos.
Celebrations in 鈥淥rder鈥� for Nova Scotian honourees
Celebrations in 鈥淥rder鈥� for Nova Scotian honourees
Ryan McNutt
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Faculty member Barb Hamilton-Hinch, Dallaire Institute ED Shelly Whitman, and several Dal alumni are among this year鈥檚 appointees to the Order of Nova Scotia, honouring significant contributions to the province.

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Community street painting fosters creativity and connection
Julie Hallett, with photos by Cody Turner
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Dal students, community members, and others brought a fresh and vibrant look to the intersection of Larch and Jennings streets during a street painting event last weekend.
Porn鈥檚 new program: Dal legal scholar's new book focuses on the shift to algorithms and legal frameworks to tame them
Andrew Riley
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Dr. Elaine Craig's Mainstreaming Porn: Sexual Integrity and the Law Online explores how law, policy, and social measures can address the harmful consequences of algorithm-driven mainstream porn.
Dal achieves top鈥憄erformer status in 2024 Sustainable Campus Index as green credentials grow
Matt Reeder
Friday, September 13, 2024
妻友 secured a spot as a top performer globally in two key categories in the latest index, including Coordination & Planning and Purchasing. Learn more about this year's report.
From tomatoes to ketchup: Culture of Growing provides hands鈥憃n agriculture opportunities to youth across Nova Scotia
Stephanie Rogers
Friday, September 13, 2024
Twenty-four students in Grades 7 鈥� 12 recently participated in the Culture of Growing program, a youth-led community garden and greenhouse program that contributes to community food security.
Experience the global pitch competition where the future unfolds before your eyes
Andrew Riley
Thursday, September 12, 2024
You鈥檙e invited to the Falling Walls Lab 鈥� Atlantic Canada next Tuesday, September 17. The event will bring together young innovators from Atlantic Canada to face a daunting challenge鈥攎aking the case for why their breakthrough idea has the potential to change the world for the better, in just three minutes.