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HALIFAX - When builders created Halifax’s distinctive Hydrostone neighbourhood more than a century ago, they chose to honour celebrated explorers. There are streets named after William Grant Stairs, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot and Henry Morton Stanley, among others.
A sign marks Stairs Place in the Hydrostone district in the North end of Halifax on Thursday, May 13, 2021. The street was named for William Grant Stairs, a Canadian explorer from Halifax who helped lead some of the most controversial expeditions through the African continent. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Mount Saint Vincent University vice-president Mustansar Nadeem addressed the community yesterday in a public letter. The university will shift recently announced in-person summer classes back online. It will be closing gyms and reducing capacity in the library and archives. Faculty and staff are being encouraged to work from home whenever possible. Dalhousie University provost and vice-president Frank Harvey also reached out to students, faculty and staff in an open letter on April 22. “Dalhousie’s planning for the fall, based on vaccine timelines, continues to focus on a return to in-person learning and work, but our immediate concern must be on increasing our efforts to stem the current outbreaks,” he wrote.
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In Denmark, residents in a care homes can have a glass of wine or smoke a cigarette. They go outside, even in winter. There are a few stairs in the units, purposely built to give residents extra exercise.
Although some of the differences between these long-term care homes and those in Canada come from the physical environment Lillevang, an eldercare community built in 1998 is divided into “families” of eight people the most striking differences have to do with the Danish philosophy of what is owed to people as they age.
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