The ReCover Initiative
ReImagining the Energy Efficient Building. ReBuilding a Sustainable Economy This story first appeared in The Laker News on November 19,2020. BERWICK: Lorrie Rand remembers two pivotal moments leading to the creation of the ReCover Initiative, which aims to reimagine energy-efficient buildings in Nova Scotia. The first was in 2013, at a passive-house conference in Maine, where she […]
Why I Wrote Indian School Road
This is from my introduction to Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School, regarding my thought process on why I felt compelled to write a very difficult book: Here is what I found first: a recurring nightmare. Me wandering the black and white halls of the old building, as seen only in photographs, […]
Indian School Road is a Nova Scotia Book of Influence
Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School has been been included on the Reading Nova Scotia: 150 Books of Influence list, a list of books deemed influential and culturally relevant by Nova Scotia’s readers, librarians, and publishers. Read the full list here.
Exclusive by Design
Originally published in Coastlands: The Maritimes Policy Review, in December 2007, on pages 26-27. By Chris Benjamin In August I moved back to Halifax after an eight-year hiatus in Toronto. I was surprised to find that not much has changed. The north end is gentrifying somewhat and I see a few new buildings going in, but, by and […]
Climate Change and Terrorism
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 […]
Canadian Literature Review of Indian School Road
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 […]
My life behind the welfare wall
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 […]
