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• Community street painting fosters creativity and connection
  Dal students, community members, and others brought a fresh and vibrant look to the intersection of Larch and Jennings streets during a street painting event last weekend.
  
• Porn鈥檚 new program: Dal legal scholar's new book focuses on the shift to algorithms and legal frameworks to tame them
  Dr. Elaine Craig's Mainstreaming Porn: Sexual Integrity and the Law Online explores how law, policy, and social measures can address the harmful consequences of algorithm-driven mainstream porn.
  
• Celebrating excellence: 马会论坛鈥檚 newest Governor General鈥檚 Gold Medal Award winners
  This year's recipients of the national award for academic excellence are helping forge new frontiers in knowledge about medical assistance in dying and medical diagnostics.
  
• How I spent my summer: Seeing the light in the lab
  Soheil Ghaffari's proactive hunt for a career that could help him balance his love of science and the arts landed him in a Dal dental lab over the summer.
  

• How I spent my summer: Sharing cider鈥檚 a鈥憄eel with farmers鈥� markets
  A growing Ontario cidery tapped into Dal student Lauren Hunter鈥檚 sustainability skills as part of its expansion into farmers鈥� markets around the province.
  
• Ask an expert: Yes, slavery happened in Canada 鈥� and this Dal prof is helping us understand that history
  Dr. Harvey Amani, a professor of history at Dal and King's and author of the award-winning Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes, opens up about some of the ways Black people experienced bondage in Canada and where to learn more.
  
• Grand premiere: PhD candidate鈥檚 directorial debut set to show at TIFF
  Dal alum and current Interdisciplinary PhD candidate shalan joudry鈥檚 short film 鈥渨elima'q鈥� will have its world premiere this September at the Toronto International Film Festival.
  
• Dal Tigers football team seizes chance to support cancer patients
  When a fellow Tiger was hit by two rare cancers in 2022, teammates on the Dal football team stepped up to raise funds. This year, they're back with even bigger ambitions.
  
• Here鈥檚 how progressive, collaborative electoral alternatives can beat the far right
  If political parties respect voters and focus on policy rather than polls and partisan hackery, Canadians might have something substantive to choose from when the next federal election is called.
  
• Kafka at 100: Rawi Hage鈥檚 brilliant 鈥楥ockroach鈥� invited some comparison to 鈥楾he Metamorphosis'
  Sixty years after his death, the work of German author Franz Kafka continues to resonate. To mark what would have been his 100th birthday, Brittany Kraus of Dal's English department writes about his influence on the 2008 novel Cockroach by Lebanese Canadian writer and photographer Rawi Hage.