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East and West mingle at conference

Monday, July 19th, 2010

CKDU Interviews Gordon McOuat
Length: 9:00 min
Format: mp3, 128 kbps
Size: 9 MB
HALIFAX – Circulating Knowledge, East and West is a unique conference focused on the circulation of scientific knowledge in South Asia and beyond throughout history. The conference hopes to establish lasting global relations to support a network of social and humanist studies of science.
“Halifax [...]

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DSU Elections Round-up Part 4: President

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Listen: Interview with Neil Bailey [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-9-neil_bailey_pres.mp3]
Listen: Interview with Greg Debogorski [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-4-greg_debogorski_pres.mp3]
Listen: Interview with Chris Saulnier [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-1-chris_saulnier_pres.mp3]

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DSU Elections Round-up Part 3: VP Internal

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Listen: Interview with Glenn Blake [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-3-glenn_blake_vpi.mp3]
Listen: Interview with Kayla Kurin [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-8-kayla_kurin_vpi.mp3]
Listen: Interview with Tim Hiltz [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-10-tim_hiltz_vpi.mp3]
Listen: Interview with Henry Whitfield [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-6-henry_whitfield_vpi.mp3]

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DSU Elections Round-up Part 2: VP Education and Student Life

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Listen: Interview with Rob Leforte [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-1-rob_leforte_vp_ed.mp3]
Listen: Interview with Evan Price [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-2-evan_price_vp_ed.mp3]
Listen: Interview with Karl Dempsey [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-7-karl_dempsey_vp_ed.mp3]
Listen: Interview with Hannah Dahn [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-5-hannah_dahn_vp_sl.mp3]

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DSU Election Round-up Part 1: Senate Reps

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Listen: Interview with Maggie Lovett [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-1-maggie_lovett_senate_rep.mp3]
Listen: Interview with Carly Nicholson [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-3-carly_nicholson_senate_rep.mp3]
Listen: Interview with Christian Browne [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-2-christian_browne_senate_rep.mp3]
Listen: Interview with Ben Wedge [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-4-ben_wedge_senate_rep.mp3]

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The Bottle Breakers Come

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

HALIFAX – The Coca-Cola Case, a controversial documentary about corporate-sponsored illegal activity in Colombia, is making its rounds in a nationwide tour. Organized by the National Film Board (NFB) and documentary film group Cinema Politica, the tour has hit major cities like Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver, and is now making its way towards Halifax.
On January [...]

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Student group demands end to exclusivity contracts

Monday, December 7th, 2009

[Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-1-caf_tues_dec_1(2).mp3]
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Members of Campus Action on Food (CAF), a Dalhousie University student organization, fed over 50 hungry students at a free food serving in the lobby of the Dalhousie Student Union Building on December 1, 2009. The food serving raised awareness about a popular petition to be presented to the DSU Council on December [...]

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Local feminist activist responds to criticisms of shutdown of anti-choice event

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

On February 4th 2009, at least a dozen women and their allies shut down an event at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax entitled “Echoes of the Holocaust”, forcing its relocation to a church off campus. The talk, given by Jose Ruba of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, was part of the Genocide Awareness Project, [...]

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NSPIRG motion fails at the Dal Student Union AGM

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

The Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group at Dalhousie University fought to keep it’s student levy at a recent General Meeting of the Dal Student Union (DSU).
In a record turn out for a DSU AGM, over 600 students packed into the MacInnes auditorium to vote on a controversial motion that would have NSPIRG’s funding removed, [...]

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Live Panel on Student Activism

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

CKDU’s Mad Sessions, the CKDU News Collective and the Dalhousie Gazette proudly present:
A live panel on student activism
Thursday, March 26, 2009
9 pm to 10:30 pm on CKDU 88.1 fm
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featuring:
Daniel Boyle, Dalhousie Student Union (DSU) Vice President Internal
Angela Day, staff Resource Co-ordinator, Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group (NSPIRG)
Jonathan Mulle, Students Moblizing for Action on Campus [...]

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