Chris Benjamin

Raucous crowd greets fracking review panel

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 […]

Natural Law

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,” […]

Bookmark’s for sale

This story first appeared in The Coast on Jan 17, 2014: Atlantic Canada’s oldest indie bookstore seeks new ownership Halifax’s only independent adult bookstore is for sale, along with its Charlottetown counterpart. Bookmark is the longest running independent bookstore in Atlantic Canada.

Clinical culture clash

This story first appeared in the Halifax Chronicle Herald in Feb 2011: TWO FORMER IWK midwives say the hospital’s rejection of some of the principles and practices of midwifery — particularly the right of the mother to make informed decisions about the birth environment and methodology — forced them out of the program, which was […]

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