Welcome to the new Watch Magazine.
KSU Election 2021: Harris named president
Nick Harris wins solo race with plans to take action to reopen student business and improve mental health coverage, but will have to work hard for student engagement.
Halifax Valentine’s Day Guide 2021
Whether you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day or Galentine’s Day this year, The Watch has you covered. Treating your partner? Your friends? Yourself? We’ve curated a Halifax guide to Valentine’s day that’s guaranteed to help you out.
KSU Election 2021: Student Life VP Candidate Overviews
Editor’s note: this article is a part of a series of candidate interviews. The Student Life Vice President is responsible for tasks such as societies and orientation week and is the student representative on the Occupation Health and Safety committee at King’s. Luke Baumgart Luke Baumgart (he/him) is a first year FYP arts student from […]
Editorial – to our friends at etc. Press
We’re sad to see our friends at etc. Press closing down shop. For the past seven years, etc. has helped bring in new generations of King’s journalists.
From all of us at The Watch: thank you for everything and for working with us for so long!
News
Faced with boycott, King’s drops half of holiday meal plan costs
KSU claims victory but says work is still to be done.
The Price of Going Home
This year, going home for the holidays will cost international students $1528 to self isolate when they come back. Students coming back to Halifax from outside Canada will be required to fund a hotel stay and meals for 14 days. This added fee is on top of the estimated $2000 some international students may pay […]
“Disability is a really political thing”: Disabled Students’ Collective established at King’s
Founder says the idea came after a long wait from the Dalhousie Accessibility Centre for accommodations.
Arts & Culture
Here’s the squeeze: bagpipes are back at King’s
Listen as student Cameron Barrett plays his bagpipes. Barrett will be back playing every Friday while the weather stays good.
KTS Main Season: 'Little Death' review
Little Death, directed by Daniel Halpern and written by Daniel Sarah Karasik, opens with a conversation at a bar. The awkward conversation is realistic, eyes drift from hands to smiles. Tension builds for several minutes as the conversation between Ali, played by Hilary Allister, and Dallas, played by Simone Reid, dips its toe into the […]
KTS Main Season: 'Will You Taste Our Blood' review
Sex finds itself in the spotlight of The Pit. Will You Taste Our Blood, written by Katie Clarke and directed by Clarke and Adrianna Vanos, is a bubbling concoction. The play combines elements of the Greek tragedy The Bacchae with contemporary issues of sex, consent, and social anxiety. It stars Alex Retzer as Mae (a […]
Wanna keep up-to-date with what’s going on at King’s?
Follow our social media pages to stay up-to-date with everything UKC.
City
No Pipeline!
An update to our previous story on Wet’suwet’en protests in Halifax was printed in our Feb. 2020 edition. On February 12th, upwards of 150 people organized to block the Fairview Cove Container Terminal and the gate to the terminal in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land and water protectors. The RCMP in British Columbia are removing Indigenous […]
Halifax/K’jipuktuk: Protestors Stand in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en
Upwards of 150 people organized in Halifax on Feb. 11th around noon to block the Fairview Cove Container Terminal and the gate to the terminal in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land and water protectors. The main blockade was at the Fairview Cove Container Terminal, they are stopping trucks from entering the terminal. The second is down […]
FIN: Giving Voice to Indigenous Experience
Indigenous issues and representation were tackled in many films at this year’s Atlantic International Film Festival and Michael Trombetta had the chance to review three of them.
Opinion
Dude… It's natural
Periods are taboo. Blood is coming out of someone’s body. They are disgusting. They can be abundant. They can be small. They can last for a week. They can last for 3 days. It’s basically a deep cleaning of the uterus. Sometimes it hurts. It’s irritating. It makes you feel more emotional. In high school, […]
Books be gone?
She’s cute, organized and here to ruin your life: Marie Kondo wants you to get rid of your books. Kondo is an author who was previously best known for penning the book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, a bestseller that explains Kondo’s method of cleaning up your house, and inevitably, your life. It […]
Life after J-school
Being a young journalist in Halifax is hard. Damn hard. Salaried jobs are non-existent. Freelancing seems to be the only source of income. Second or third jobs are often the only way people make ends meet. And all of this you wish you had known when you were 17-years-old, applying for journalism schools, taking out […]