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Progress Pride Flag raising celebrates season of belonging

Progress Pride Flag raising celebrates season of belonging

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.  Read more.

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Matt Reeder
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
ĢAV invited members of the African Nova Scotian community to campus, including leaders from museums and cultural centres across the province, to discuss how to work together to preserve and share historical records and artifacts.
Courtney Bragg
Friday, June 12, 2026
Building on ĢAV’s Engagement Days, a recent symposium at Dal convened municipal leaders and researchers to address climate, infrastructure and planning pressures shaping water management across Nova Scotia communities.
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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Catherine Martin
Friday, September 25, 2020
Catherine Martin, ĢAV’s director of Indigenous community engagement, reflects on the Treaties of Peace and Friendship, the current dispute over fishing rights and the important role of educational leadership in the journey towards true reconciliation.
Matt Reeder
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Canada's minister of national defence and the president of the Toronto Raptors will join retired Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire and others passionate about preventing the recruitment and use of children in violence in a global symposium online next week.
Trudi Smith
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Kelsey Jones, a graduate of the Schulich School of Law’s Indigenous Blacks and Mi’kmaq (IB&M) Initiative, has returned to her alma mater to serve as the program's director.
Stephanie Rogers
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
The ĢAV Agricultural Campus Feed Nova Scotia Garden initiative is a true collaboration that forges a “Field-to-Fork pathway” between campus and the community.
Merilyn Layne and Margaret Palmeter
Friday, August 28, 2020
As governments and health care providers around the world scrambled earlier this year to acquire personal protective equipment in the face of a growing pandemic and severely disrupted supply chains, ĢAV and the Emera ideaHUB stepped in to help address the critical need for locally available solutions.