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º£½ÇÉçÇøapp Legal Aid Service’s groundbreaking advocacy in the case of the East Preston-based Sparks family changes the conversation about poverty’s impact on women and children.

This year, the bulk of Hanukkah falls during the university semester at Dal, and some students such as Liane Cloutier are carving time out of their busy exam schedules to celebrate the festive Jewish holiday.

On the 28th anniversary of the tragic mass shooting at École Polytechnique, a new set of awards — each in honour of one of the 14 victims — celebrate women studying Engineering who are making a difference in the classroom and in their communities.

Advocacy can be a long game with infrequent tangible results. But for Schulich School of Law Pro Bono student volunteers, working with alumnus Mark Knox, the International Transfer Project reveals the real-life difference that powerful advocacy can make.

A collaboration between Dal faculty in Architecture and Computer Science, the Dal Art Gallery's "Walking the Debris Field" offers a unique multimedia exploration of the Halifax Explosion, 100 years later.