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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 16h

Dal should’ve ditched reading week to get us out sooner. The way it’s looking, we’ll all just be doing school work over fall break anyway.
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Editorial opinion: Dal should’ve ditched reading week

Dal should’ve ditched reading week to get us out sooner. The way it’s looking, we’ll all just be doing school work over fall break anyway.

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Before hitting the stage at Sommo Festival in Cavendish, P.E.I., on Sept. 14, Customer Service was best known to Halifax university students for late-night house shows and sweaty nights spent dancing in local dive bars.
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Customer Service loves a slumber party

Before hitting the stage at Sommo Festival in Cavendish, P.E.I., on Sept. 14, Customer Service was best known to Halifax university students for late-night house shows and sweaty nights spent dancing ...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Social media is no longer casual, according to experts and Dalhousie University students. The age of the digital footprint turned platforms created to share pictures with friends into places to carefully curate a personal brand.
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What happened to casual posting?

Social media is no longer casual, according to experts and Dalhousie University students. The age of the digital footprint turned platforms created to share pictures with friends into places to carefu...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Each fall, the Atlantic International Film Festival transforms the Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane in downtown Halifax into a hub for international arts and culture.
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Reviewing the Atlantic International Film Festival 2025

Each fall, the Atlantic International Film Festival transforms the Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane in downtown Halifax into a hub for international arts and culture. This year’s festival returned to the ci...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Halifax coffee and record shop Listen marked its first anniversary in September, celebrating one year of bringing a Japanese-inspired mix of music and coffee to Barrington Street.
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Local business owner Eddy Yang celebrates one year of Listen

Halifax coffee and record shop Listen marked its first anniversary in September, celebrating one year of bringing a Japanese-inspired mix of music and coffee to Barrington Street.

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats, everyone. We can finally say we made it through a global pandemic — and with only a few respiratory issues and flashbacks when buying toilet paper to prove it.
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We can’t forget about COVID-19

Congrats, everyone. We can finally say we made it through a global pandemic — and with only a few respiratory issues and flashbacks when buying toilet paper to prove it. The same way my dad swears his...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Award shows are traditions meant to celebrate artists, but the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards found a way to undermine its own purpose by placing a dollar sign on the speeches that everyone is there to see.
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How the 2025 Emmys turned generosity into a gimmick

Award shows are traditions meant to celebrate artists, but the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards found a way to undermine its own purpose by placing a dollar sign on the speeches that everyone is there to se...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

The Liberal party — in its late-Trudeau and early-Carney forms — has already enacted many of the crackdowns the “Canada First” protestors chanted for.
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Which Canada should we be putting first?

When I heard about the Canada First Patriot Rally in Toronto, it struck me as hilariously misconceived. Christie Pits Park — the centre of one of the most diverse areas in Toronto and the site of a fa...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing media personality, was shot and killed while debating gun violence during a visit to Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
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Charlie Kirk advocated for hate speech, not free speech

Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing media personality, was shot and killed while debating gun violence during a visit to Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

“Happy homecoming!” University of New Brunswick Reds’ Grayson Rutters shouted to Dalhousie University fans as they left Wickwire Field following the Reds’ 24-21 overtime win.
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UNB puts a lid on Dal’s homecoming celebrations

On a day where fans packed Wickwire Field to celebrate Homecoming they were nearly delivered a win but it was snatched by UNB.

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

The Tigers lost both games to Acadia and one game to UNB over the weekend, but Dal’s 10-6 win in their second match with UNB secured them first place in the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball Association standings.
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Dalhousie baseball hits the road

It’s the final weekend of regular-season play in the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball Association.

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Lost in the hustle and bustle of early first semester, Dalhousie University fall sports are well underway, with student athletes looking to make a difference for their teams.
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One player to look out for on every Dalhousie Tigers fall sports team

Lost in the hustle and bustle of early first semester, Dalhousie University fall sports are well underway, with student athletes looking to make a difference for their teams.However, some athletes shi...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

The Dalhousie University women’s soccer team opened their season strong, with a perfect record through their first seven games.
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Dalhousie University women's soccer undefeated through first seven games

After a season last year which saw its returning players get some Nationals experience, the Tigers have been on a mission, not losing through seven.

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

As Dalhousie University students counted the days until homecoming weekend, the football team looked to the week ahead.
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Home-opener to hoco; Dal looks to build off hard-fought win

The Tigers won their home-opener 21-9 against the Holland College Hurricanes. Dal football is coming off an undefeated season.

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Leadership doesn’t just involve huddling up, encouraging the team and jumping into action. Kasandra Trenke, beginning the 2025–26 season in her fourth year at Dalhousie University, strives to develop her leadership skills on and off the court.
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Kasandra Trenke: volleyball beyond the court

Kasandra Trenke, a Dalhousie women's volleyball player won an award in the spring for excellence on the court, in the class and in the community.

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Emily Sklar, an oceanography graduate student at Dalhousie, created the petition on Sept. 11 because she was angry about university administration’s handling of the faculty lockout.
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Petition for Dalhousie President’s resignation gains over 1,000 signatures

Over 1,000 people signed a petition calling for Dalhousie University President Kim Brooks to resign following the university’s lockout of its faculty. Emily Sklar, an oceanography graduate student at ...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Dalhousie’s senate announced Sept. 22 that the university won’t offer tuition refunds or rate changes to students, despite three weeks of fall classes lost.
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Dalhousie students to pay full-price tuition, despite three weeks of class lost

Dalhousie’s senate announced Sept. 22 that the university won’t offer tuition refunds or rate changes to students, despite three weeks of fall classes lost. Instead, the senate announced changes to th...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Dalhousie University’s Joseph Strug Music Hall transformed from an auditorium to an idea hub on Sept. 24 as student entrepreneurs pitched to win a share of an $18,000 prize pool.
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Meet Dal Innovates’ next generation of entrepreneurs

Dal Innovates hosted the Demo Day event as part of Dal Innovation Week — a nine-day program of 15 events that showcased entrepreneurial projects from across Atlantic Canada. The organization offers en...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Many students have flippantly sworn off dating apps a few times throughout university, and we’re not alone.
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How are all these people getting together? … when they can’t approach each other in real life

Many students have flippantly sworn off dating apps a few times throughout university, and we’re not alone. There is evidence that dating apps are dying — fueled by our generation’s increasing desire ...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

The Student Union Building will be renovated to add a space dedicated to food security initiatives, says Dalhousie Student Union executives.
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Renovations coming to Student Union Building to support food security

The Student Union Building will be renovated to add a space dedicated to food security initiatives, says Dalhousie Student Union executives. The announcement was made at a town hall hosted by the DSU ...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

Fall break, a permanent fixture at Dalhousie since 2016, was previously up in the air. The university was undecided whether to cancel the break to make up for class time lost to Dalhousie’s faculty lockout.
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Reading week to go ahead after Dal announces schedule changes

Dalhousie University’s senate confirmed that reading week will go ahead as scheduled from Nov. 10 to 14 after announcing changes to the academic schedule on Sept. 22. Fall break, a permanent fixture a...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

With the fall semester shortened due to the faculty lockout, professors at Dalhousie University are restructuring their courses to fit a condensed schedule.
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Dal professors worry about a condensed fall semester

With the fall semester shortened due to the faculty lockout, professors at Dalhousie University are restructuring their courses to fit a condensed schedule.

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 6d

For most people, Friday night marks the start of the weekend. But in Halifax, Dalhousie University students get a head start before the workweek is over.
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What puts the power in Power Hour?

While the sun is still high on Thursday afternoons, crowds of young patrons line the corner of Granville and Duke Streets, ready to kick off an evening of rowdy tradition, tomfoolery and the kind of m...

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 16d

What happens to student athletes who must keep a GPA above 3.50 to compete in athletics when they get a brain injury that affects their focus and ability to process information?
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How does Dalhousie protect its student athletes from concussions?

It’s a dangerous line for any student to walk, but for Dalhousie athletes in contact sports like football, concussions may be unavoidable.

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Dal Gazette @dalgazette.bsky.social · 16d

There’s more than one way to climb a tree, eat a kiwi, achieve a career in the NFL, or in the case of three new point guards for Dalhousie University, to make the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) league.
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The road less travelled

There’s more than one way to climb a tree, eat a kiwi, or in the case of three new point guards for Dalhousie University, to play U SPORTS.

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