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?
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.
This story first appeared in The Coast on Mar 22, 2012: I don’t remember reading The Lorax when I was a kid. I read it to my kid now. But I’m not a Lorax purist. So, on a Friday afternoon I hit the Empire and paid my $13, got my 3D glasses in cellophane wrapper […]
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 […]
This story first appeared in The Coast on Jan 20, 2011: Two landmark environmental racism cases are coming to a head; one could change how polluting companies do business in Canada By Chris Benjamin In mid-September, the Pictou Landing First Nation band council filed a lawsuit
