POV Magazine • 25th July 2023

Nik Sheehan Talks No Sad Songs, Collaboration, and Queer Resiliency in the AIDS Crisis

In the early-1980s, Nik Sheehan found himself in Toronto working as a feature writer for NOW Magazine. As the spectre of an incomprehensible illness began to spread through Toronto’s queer community, Sheehan offered some of the first real-time reporting on the crisis. It was through this early coverage, alongside a relationship with the newly founded AIDS Coalition of Toronto, that Sheehan landed a $20 000 grant to create a documentary tracing the ongoing collective response of Toronto’s queer c

POV Magazine • 5th May 2023

Fauna Review: Observing Animals and Their Humans

Barcelona-based filmmaker and activist Pau Faus made waves with his medium-length film Sí se puede. Siete días en PAH Barcelona (2014) and his award-winning debut feature Ada for Mayor (2016). With Fauna, Faus’ latest feature, he steps away from the narratives of urban activism that have been the centre of his previous works.

Fauna follows two parallel insights into the contemporary lives of animals. On the outskirts of Barcelona, an aging shepherd holds on to ancestral traditions in his dying

POV Magazine • 26th April 2023

Holly Andersen on Hebron Relocation and compassionate storytelling

Back in 2018, Holly Andersen was working as a professional photographer in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, an autonomous area govered by the Inuit in Labrador. Now, her debut short film is premiering in Hot Docs’ 2023 festival. Andersen is an alumni of the NFB’s Lab Docs incubator, a program supporting first-time Inuit filmmakers in pursuing visual storytelling from situated Inuit perspectives. Hebron Relocation is part of the second wave of releases from the Lab Docs cohort, which, back in 2021, release

POV Magazine • 19th April 2023

Celebrate National Canadian Film Day’s 10th Anniversary with Great Docs!

This year marks the tenth anniversary of National Canadian Film Day. CanFilmDay was launched in 2014 by Reel Canada, and has brought together films, filmmakers, and audiences from coast to coast to salute our homegrown cinema every year since. This year’s event has screenings all over Canada and around the world. (Find local screenings here.) With many more , it’s worth taking a moment to look back on all the triumphs our filmmakers have shared with the world of documentary throughout the decade

POV Magazine • 4th April 2023

Now Streaming: A Renewed Call to Action from 'Why? Sexual Violence and Teens'

Danielle Sturk’s latest documentary offers a brave exploration of taboo questions that exist quietly on the periphery of youth culture. She opens Why? Sexual Violence and Teens with a statistic: “89% of reported victims of sexual assault are female. 98% of reported sexual assaults are perpetrated by males.” Sturk looks to young men and women to investigate the structures that uphold a prevailing culture of sexualized violence. The Franco-Manitoban filmmaker has been creating documentaries, exper

Dalhousie Gazette • 6th March 2023

Levy increases for three societies to be on ballot in DSU election

The Loaded Ladle kitchen, the CKDU-FM campus radio station and the Dalhousie Outdoor Society (DOS) are seeking student levy increases for the next academic year.

The potential levy increases were presented at the Jan. 31 Dalhousie Student Union council meeting. Each motion brought to the council was discussed to decide whether to make the levy increase a referenda question, to be voted on by students in the upcoming DSU election.

The requests to host referenda for the levy increases were appro

Dalhousie Gazette • 17th February 2023

Dal Health wants easier testing as HIV on rise in N.S.

Last October, the Nova Scotia Health Authority found an increase in newly diagnosed cases of HIV in the province. Since then, students at Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College may have noticed posters around campus warning of these findings.

The NSHA expects 15-20 new cases of HIV per year in Nova Scotia. By August 2022, they had already seen 20-25 new cases. In a news release from Oct. 3, Public Health said they use contact tracing to inform of potential exposures, but many

The Signal • 9th December 2022

Campaign raises thousands for recreation needs of Halifax youth in care

Campaign raises thousands for recreation needs of Halifax youth in care

Three weeks into his month-long fundraiser, 25 year-old social worker Ian Surette has raised over $3,000 for Halifax-based youth in care.

“I really just want kids in the community and moving and, like, making friends,” said Surette. Since mid-November, he’s been jumping into frigid Yarmouth waters and encouraging people to donate to his GoFundMe.

The beneficiary is Chisholm Services for Children in Halifax, where Surette

The Signal • 6th December 2022

Accountability required in over-budget spending, says auditor general Kim Adair

Tuesday’s report found $896 million in spending was not tabled or approved in legislature

Auditor general Kim Adair said on Tuesday that the province should be more transparent when it spends money outside budgeted allocations.

In the 2021-22 fiscal year, the province allocated $896 million to various departments without those decisions being tabled or debated in the legislature.

Over the past 10 years, $4.7 billion in additional funds have been allocated, according to Adair’s report released

The Signal • 23rd November 2022

NSCAD to move entire campus to Halifax Seaport

The arts university will lease space from the Halifax Port Authority minutes from the established Port campus

NSCAD University says it will unify its three-campus operations at the Halifax Seaport by 2030.

University president Peggy Shannon announced the deal with the Halifax Port Authority, owner of the Seaport buildings, on Tuesday. NSCAD will take up a 100,000-square-foot space approximately 270 metres down Marginal Road from its current Port campus known as Shed 22 and 23.

“Just imagine a