A governance expert, a labour leader, a refugee lawyer, a provincial court judge, a distinguished health professor, a medical researcher, and an ocean engineer are the latest Dal alumni to receive Canada's highest civilian honour.

Hollo Medical co-founder David Hodgson's victory brings added recognition to the startup's key innovation — a unique pocket-size asthma inhaler chamber — and provides a huge boost to the company's goal of making it accessible as quickly as possible.

One of Nova Scotia’s most prominent community and business leaders, Rustum Southwell — best known as founding CEO of the renowned Black Business Initiative — is set to take on the mantle of Ä¢¹½AV's top ceremonial role. For Southwell, it represents another chapter in a legacy of lifting people up to grow, thrive and succeed.

Now ranked at 298 globally, Ä¢¹½AV maintained twelfth place among Canadian universities and remains the top-ranked university in Atlantic Canada.

The federal government’s proposed Agile Licensing drug approval regulations mean Canada will have less information about the risks of new medicines, and higher costs.