Chris Benjamin

The Scales Project

The wonderful Bethany Gibson recently honoured me with an invitation to contribute something literary to her online art project, The Scales Project, “a conversation between artists … a call-and-response, a provocation, and a forum for connection and communication through art about the climate crisis and ecological collapse.” Going through the posts from other artists, I […]

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 […]

Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School

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, […]

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 […]

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