This Q&A originally appeared in The Coast, July 23, 2015. Ashram Parsi has saved thousands, but still has a ways to go. By Chris Benjamin In 2005, Iranian queer activist Arsham Parsi became a refugee in Canada. Through his Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, he’s helped more than 1,100 other LGBTQIA Iranians escape a country […]
I had the great honour to present at an event honouring survivors from the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School this month at the University of New Brunswick. CBC did a piece on the event:
Here’s a video of a talk by Chris Benjamin on the long road from getting bad advice from a guidance counsellor, through the St. Lucian rainforest, around Ghana and to becoming a journalist and author, most recently researching and writing Indian School Road:
A few weeks ago, former residential school teacher Bernice Logan sent a letter to the editor of the Chronicle Herald, cc’ing a long list of organizations and individuals including among others my publisher, Peter Mansbridge, Lloyd Robertson, and me. The letter concerned my new book, Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School. Logan […]
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 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
This story first appeared in the Globe and Mail on Sept 24, 2010: Gottingen Street, Halifax’s premier retail strip in the 1960s, has an unenviable reputation these days.
This story first appeared in This Magazine on Feb 16, 2010: In March 2009, Nova Scotia became the seventh province to incorporate midwifery into the public health care system. Instead of paying and arranging for the service privately, residents now have it covered and regulated by the provincial government. Midwifery should be seen as the […]
