Alexandrea Guye

CBC • 30th April 2021

Nova Scotia organization opens doors for girls in skilled trades | News

With Nova Scotia under COVID-19 lockdown, organizations like Techsploration have had to make changes to how they deliver their free programming.

The grassroots organization, which aims to empower girls in grades 9-12 through learning about skilled trades, has done a lot to adapt a year into the pandemic by making events and training virtual.

The non-profit has done well by moving things to an online platform, despite challenges, said Emily Boucher, interim executive director of Techsploration.

CBC • 25th April 2021

Dalhousie students pledge to fight on despite 3% tuition hike | News

In the face of opposition from students, Dalhousie University's board of governors voted this week to raise tuition by three per cent.

Some students camped out on campus for five days to oppose the proposed increase.

Madeleine Stinson, the Dalhousie Student Union president, said it's been a difficult year for students. She said many couldn't find work last summer to help pay for university and they have had to take classes online during the pandemic.

"Many students I've talked to don't feel l

The Signal • 10th February 2021

Rest and resist: Buy Black Birchtown springs from BLM movement fatigue

Workshops at new retreat expected to start as early as June

As the Black Lives Matter movement was re-energized across the globe last summer, Jessika Hepburn and Lauryn Guest found themselves needing space to rest and organize.

After a BLM picnic in Chester, when they were both exhausted and needed to recharge, Hepburn suggested to Guest that they needed a retreat specifically for BIPOC and 2SLGBTQIA+ people.

“I really couldn’t find any place that would explicitly tell me that they were safe

Alexandrea Guye

The Signal • 9th February 2021

With COVID-19, weekends spent downtown in Halifax aren’t what they used to be

There is no information yet as to when restaurants and bars will be back to normal hours

Argyle Street. Normally one of the busiest streets in the city on any night during the weekend, and now there’s no one outside.

It’s 11 p.m. A cab’s lights shine in the distance as it drives down the quiet bar scene in the hopes of finding anyone looking for a ride.

There are so few people, cars can comfortably drive down the street without having to worry about intoxicated pedestrians. Downtown life has

Alexandrea Guye

The Signal • 4th February 2021

Mi’kmaw women appeal for state-appointed counsel against fishing charges

The matter has been in and out of the province’s courts since 2015

Months after Mi’kmaq fishery rights came to a violent head in southwestern Nova Scotia, two Mi’kmaw women are back in court to argue for state-funded counsel to help them in a trial involving Indigenous fishing rights.

Jolene Holly Marr and Frances Eileen Bignell came before the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal on Tuesday to appeal an earlier Supreme Court of Nova Scotia decision, which said they would not receive state-funded couns

Alexandrea Guye

The Signal • 21st January 2021

Vaccinating people experiencing homelessness will be community effort, Halifax experts say

This vulnerable group is five times more likely to die from COVID-19

Experts say community groups are vital to distributing the two-dose COVID-19 vaccine among Halifax’s growing homeless population.

According to the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, there are 489 people experiencing homelessness in the Halifax Regional Municipality as of Tuesday, an increase of almost 300 per cent from this time last year.

“In the first lockdown, with public places being closed, we didn’t know wh

The Signal • 21st January 2021

First Nations, African Nova Scotian communities part of 60-90 day vaccination rollout plan

The province says there will be COVID-19 vaccination clinics set up for First Nations and African Nova Scotian communities sometime before May.

These will be “prototype single clinics,” Dr. Robert Strang, chief medical officer of health, said at the COVID-19 briefing on Tuesday.

“We will be working very closely with our First Nations and African Nova Scotian communities to ensure that we are offering the vaccine in a culturally responsive way and they have a large role in informing how those c

The Signal • 15th January 2021

Long-term care staff in Nova Scotia still overworked and underpaid, MLAs told

Unions representing workers in the province’s long-term care homes say their members need more money and more time with residents.

Leaders from several unions addressed the standing committee on health on Tuesday, sharing their frustrations and offering recommendations on ways to improve long-term care.

“Just walk in any long-term care facility in this province, and ask the experts,” Janet Hazelton, president of the Nova Scotia Nurses’ Union, said in her opening statement.

CUPE Nova Scotia, w

Alexandrea Guye

The Signal • 1st November 2020

Get FIT: Nova Scotian urges colorectal cancer screening

The province is mailing out home screening tests again, months after pausing the program

Anne Perry lost her husband one year ago this month and now more than ever she’s raising awareness about the dangers of colorectal cancer during the pandemic. She doesn’t want others to go through the same loss she did.

Perry lost her husband, Toby, when he was 51 in November 2019. He was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 49, just a year before he would have received a colorectal cancer pre-screening

The Examined Life Lab • 17th April 2018

American Psycho, American Masculinity —

What does it mean to be masculine? Does it mean wearing lots of plaid, having a thick beard, drinking lots of beer, and throwing axes? Does it mean wearing a suit and having a job in order to be able to provide for a wife and 2.5 children who live in a house with a white picket fence? What if a man does not fit cultural narratives such as those listed above? Is he still masculine? Can he lose his masculinity because he lives a different lifestyle? This is where the mind becomes a more important