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Scenes from the Halifax Pride Parade

Scenes from the Halifax Pride Parade

AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ students, alumni, faculty, and staff took to the streets for the Halifax Pride Parade, moving through downtown in a colourful, high-energy show of community and celebration.  Read more.

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Ryan McNutt
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Dal community members gathered on the Studley Quad to mark the beginning of Pride celebrations in Halifax and honour the efforts of those working for a more inclusive future.
Erin Stewart-Reid
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
The agreement, signed at the University of King’s College on Wednesday, June 24, will establish a province-wide framework across Nova Scotia's 10 public universities.
Matt Reeder
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Staff and faculty reflect on fresh insights, big‑picture thinking, and renewed inspiration sparked at this popular spring gathering, touching on AI, belonging, and the student experience.

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Allie Jehle
Thursday, May 17, 2018
At its annual year-in-review event, Dal's Office of Sustainability offered an overview of its impressive achievements over the past year: in reducing CO2 emissions, in waste reduction and in several other core areas.
Emma Geldart
Friday, May 11, 2018
Modelled after the Agricultural Campus's iconic Barley Ring, the new Barley Arch — a gift from students and alumni to help mark Dal's 200th anniversary — will frame the entrance to the beautiful Alumni Gardens.
Ryan McNutt
Friday, May 4, 2018
AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ will provide athletic facilites and accommodations for the 2020 North American Indigenous Games in Halifax, set to be the largest multi-sporting event ever held in Nova Scotia.
Michael Moosberger, University Archivist
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
From the Archives: In this first instalment of a new feature highlighting items of note from the University Archives, we explore a mystery worthy of Indiana Jones himself: missing stone tablets from Dal's first Halifax campus, once housed in an "academic ark" for the university's centennial celebrations.
Ryan McNutt
Thursday, April 26, 2018
This week Dr. Afua Cooper, the most recent James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies at AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ and a pioneering voice in Canadian dub poetry and spoken word, was installed as the Halifax Regional Municipality's seventh Poet Laureate.