Dear King’s Community, On Saturday, September 30, King’s and people across the country will observe the third National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. When Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its 94 Calls to Action [PDF] in 2015, among these was a Call to Action for the federal government of Canada to establish a statutory holiday “to honour Survivors, their…
On September 8th, the Foundation Year Program (FYP) received an extraordinary gift: a lecture from Hereditary Chief on the Mi'kmaq Grand Council, Elder and Mi'kmaq scholar Stephen Augustine. It was an honor for King’s to host Chief Augustine as he taught a hall of FYP students about the Mi’kmaw Creation Story, and shed light on…
The Peter Mansbridge Investigative Writing Award will benefit students in King’s Master of Journalism and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction A $100,000 gift from esteemed Canadian journalist Peter Mansbridge will endow a new scholarship, the Peter Mansbridge Investigative Writing Award, to be awarded annually to a student in the second year of the…
Women's Soccer The UKC Women enjoyed an extended break from competition after their weekend excursion to Holland College and Dal AC was postponed by inclement weather. Restarting midweek in Halifax against local rivals MSVU, King's recorded their first loss of the season, dropping a 0-1 match to the visiting Mystics. The lone goal was netted…
Beginning this month, we’ll invite a member of faculty to tell us about one book that played an outsized role in making them who they are today. This month, Associate Professor of Humanities Mélanie Frappier tells us about her Words to Live By. What book have you chosen? All the books from Daniel Pennac's…
Dear King's community, Yesterday in Halifax and in locations around Canada, a group of people tried to promote an anti-2SLGBTQIA+ agenda, one that specifically targets and impacts trans and gender non-conforming people. The University of King’s College rejects this agenda and the ideology, culture of fear, bad science and prejudice that lies behind it. Equally…
Dear King’s Community, We write with great sadness to share the news that Jen Powley, BJ’01, MFA’15, has died. An alumna of the Bachelor of Journalism program and the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Nonfiction at King’s, as well as Dalhousie’s MA in Urban Planning, Jen was an accomplished writer and advocate. Having…
When Jasmine Parent was nine years old, she already knew that when she grew up, she would be either a teacher or like her mother, a social worker. Supportive of her daughter’s ambitions, her mother brought Parent into the office one day and introduced her to her co-worker, a woman named Bette. “Bette was the…
Women's Rugby The UKC Women cruised to a comfortable win in their season opener at home against the visiting Rams of Dal AC. Led by rookie Kali Jones with 5 tries for 25 points, a total of six Blue Devils found their way onto the scoresheet with tries coming from Paige Minty, Clara Schumph (2),…
