“Great Wall” is a short story commissioned by Halifax playwright and actor Michael McPhee as part of the Doppler Effect’s Cadimus Protocol, a trans-media art project that imagines a world where “environmental cataclysm forces vigorous regulation of humanity’s procreation rate in order to balance our ecosystem.” So far it includes works of theatre, visual art, […]
Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library’s 2014 Writer-in-Residence, Chris Benjamin, will launch his newest book with a reading on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 7:00 p.m. at the Antigonish Town and County Library (283 Main St., Antigonish, Nova Scotia). Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School is released this month and won the Dave Greber Freelance Writing Award. […]
From the Aug 25 NG News: It all started at the age of six years old when he wrote the story of a boy and his dinosaur. After that, Chris Benjamin was hooked on writing. As a shy boy growing up in Beaverbank, Nova Scotia, writing was a creative outlet that he knew he was […]
September 22, 2014, 7:00 pm, at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. In Indian School Road, journalist Chris Benjamin tackles the controversial and tragic history of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, its predecessors, and its lasting effects, giving voice to multiple perspectives for the first time. Benjamin integrates research, interviews, and testimonies to guide readers […]
This story was first published in the Halifax Examiner on Jul 24, 2014: by Chris Benjamin David Wheeler’s fracking roadshow reached Halifax last night and received its most boisterous heckling yet. Wheeler, president of Cape Breton University and sustainable business guru (he convinced the province to burn trees for energy), chairs an “independent review […]
This story first appeared in Halifax Magazine in April 2014: It’s time for Halifax to give its earth, wind and water legal standing By Chris Benjamin Coming home from South America, Halifax journalist Silver Donald Cameron was asked the purpose of his trip at customs. “I was making a documentary about the rights of nature,” […]
This story first appeared in Dalhousie Magazine in the summer of 2013: On a cold evening in Nome, Alaska – located just below the Arctic Circle – half the town’s 3,600 people crowd together indoors to meet Dalhousie Earth Sciences researcher Lawrence Plug. It’s a big turn-out for a science lecture, but then Dr. Plug’s […]
This story first appeared in Atlantic Books Today in Fall 2013: Author and publisher Lesley Choyce’s workspace offers an escape from the real world—but a window that frames the ocean view is essential.
This story first appeared in Atlantic Books Today in 2013: With surgeon-like skill, Kimber dissects, bottom up, an injustice perpetrated at the highest US levels on Cuban patriots acting for their government with few financial resources in a hostile foreign country. The Cuban Five’s spy efforts were
This story first appeared in The Coast on April 18, 2013: The Maritime Link is sold as a solution to our environmental problems. So why is no one talking about its negative environmental effects?
