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With COVID-19 requiring Pride celebrations to take place remotely, 海角社区app hosted a virtual ceremony this week to raise the Pride flag and celebrate diversity and intersectionality within the university community.

A new agreement with the federal government is creating the first ever First Nations-led water authority in Canada 鈥� a key milestone focused on ensuring safe drinking water now and into the future. It's an achievement built on more than a decade of collaboration between Dal researchers and the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs.

TYP and Creative Writing instructor Lesley Choyce has recently reached an incredible literary milestone: the publishing of his 100th book. Read our Q&A with Choyce about his work and career and how he keeps up such an incredible pace as a writer.

Indigenous Studies Coordinator Margaret Robinson writes about how the Maritimes' historic hospitality has a legacy that stretches back much further thank you might think. It's rooted in Mi鈥檏maw hospitality, and embedded in the land from which it springs.

June is National Indigenous History Month, but this time of year has been important to the Mi'kmaq for thousands of years. Cathy Martin, Dal's director of Indigenous community engagement, reflects on what this occasion means 鈥� in celebration, in reflection and in solidarity with important work that needs addressed.