Mark the date, mark your ballot: Increasing youth voter turnout in municipal elections.

Hannah Baillie, Editor. Civic engagement amongst Canada’s youth population is declining. In the 2019 federal election, only 54 per cent of eligible voters aged 18-24 cast their ballot. And the problem extends well beyond federal politics. In Halifax’s 2016 municipal election, only 31.7 per cent of eligible voters turned out to vote.  With the upcoming mayoral election on…

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Coping with COVID-19 through social media

The influx of the global pandemic COVID-19 was not the way that most university students anticipated ending their winter semester at Mount Saint Vincent University. As university students, we generally live a fast-paced and highly social life, balancing courses, jobs, extracurriculars, family time and catching up with friends. Now, we have to focus not only…

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