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New ±«Óătv certificate aims to strengthen fire service leadership across Nova Scotia

New ±«Óătv 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’s efforts to counter eco‑anxiety
Growing community: New Halifax pollinator garden part of Dal group’s efforts to counter eco‑anxiety
Kenneth Conrad
Friday, August 14, 2026
Dal’s 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 “Order” for Nova Scotian honourees
Celebrations in “Order” 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’s appointees to the Order of Nova Scotia, honouring significant contributions to the province.

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Dal alum’s $1‑million gift to create paediatric and adult special needs dental clinic
Cheryl Bell
Friday, October 7, 2022
The new Tze/Chiang Paediatric and Adult Special Needs Clinic in the Faculty of Dentistry was made possible through a $1-million gift from alumna Dr. Theresa Chiang (BSc’61, DDS’65) in memory of her late husband, paediatric physician Dr. Wah Jun Tze (MD’65).
Culture, colour and community on display at campus Mawio'mi
Danny Abriel
Friday, October 7, 2022
Explore scenes from Dal's 12th annual Mawio'mi, part of the university's Mi'kmaq History Month celebrations.
CBC radio host and Dal alum Portia Clark extracts the best from a conversation
Anne Swan
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Philosophy alum Portia Clark (BA’91), the voice of CBC’s "Information Morning" in mainland Nova Scotia, returns to Dal this month to moderate Digital Democracy — the second annual Stanfield Conversation.
±«Óătv to present exhibition celebrating Gerhard Herzberg and his legacy
Andrew Riley
Monday, October 3, 2022
A new exhibition opening this week will showcase the life and legacy of German Canadian Nobel Prize winner Dr. Gerhard Herzberg and provide an opportunity to recognize ±«Óătv’s winners of NSERC’s Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.
Two of Dal’s Indigenous leaders share personal reflections on truth and reconciliation
Cathy Martin and Patti Doyle-Bedwell
Thursday, September 29, 2022
With the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation coming up this Friday, September 30, we reached out to two of Dal’s Indigenous leaders to share their own personal reflections on what the day means to them.