This story first appeared in The Coast on November 26, 2015: Halifax to Paris, by way of Syria Climate change is driving conflicts across the world, and we’re starting to see the results. By Chris Benjamin “When you have drought, when people can’t grow their crops, they’re going to migrate into cities, and when people […]
In her paper for Canadian Literature, Christina Turner reviews three “anticolonial pedagogies” including Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School, which she says strikes “a difficult balance between articulating the culture of corruption and incompetence that characterized the IRS system in general and Shubenacadie in particular, while stressing the culpability of those who […]
One woman’s struggle to move forward in the system that holds her back The following is an excerpt from the March 2016 Halifax Magazine feature called “My life behind the welfare wall,” by Kyla Derry as told to Chris Benjamin: Here’s something you may not know about poverty: when you get off welfare and get […]
How short-term energy-price politics prevent us from making real progress in the fight against climate change. On December 14, Minister of Energy Michel Samson stood before the legislature and introduced Bill 141 – Electricity Plan Implementation Act. “Mr. Speaker,” he said, “I’m pleased to stand for a third time to speak about this important bill…The […]
The following is an excerpt from a feature story about Atlantic Canadian writers who were finalists in CBC’s annual short story contest, written by Chris Benjamin and published in Atlantic Books Today in April 2016. The CBC announced yesterday that David Huebert, who grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has won this year’s prestigious
