Research

Robin Campbell was a volunteer firefighter for 10 years in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, and is now hoping her research will lead to policy changes that will improve mental health training, awareness and support for volunteer firefighters across the province.

Researchers at Dalhousie, NSCC, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Full Bay Scallop Association have completed a three-year scan of the bottom of the Bay of Fundy for garbage and debris — and the results aren't pretty.

Justin Trudeau will have change his style of governing in the new minority government, writes Political Science PhD student Julia Rodgers. Working in a co-operative government with other political parties could diminish executive dominance.

Read our Q&A with Philosopher Lissa Skitolsky, the Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies for the 2019-20 year, as she prepares for her first public lecture this week on "Holocaust Humour and our Sensibility of Anti-Black Violence."

Attendees at last week's Cuban Revolution at 60 conference heard about many facets of Cuba's continued evolution, including how its climate-change credentials have improved in recent years as the country shifts away from the highly intensive agricultural practices of the past.