Macdonald Bridge repairs

When a “climate emergency” means more roads

The nine-kilometre long Burnside Connector highway will cost at least $196 million, more than the entire Integrated Mobility Plan for active transportation and transit projects across the city. No one said the highway was too expensive, but leaders cry poverty when it comes to actually addressing the climate emergency.

May 1, 2019 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

On Friday, school kids will walk out of their classes and head out for another march around Halifax, visiting the various levels of government along the way, pleading for someone, anyone in a position of power to take seriously the realities of climate change. Their timing is great. Sometime this coming month, Halifax City Council […]

All in All It’s Just Another Slick in the Harbour

Morning File, Tuesday, August 28, 2018

August 28, 2018 By Chris Benjamin 5 Comments

Hi, I’m Chris Benjamin, today’s guest writer. I’m a journalist as well as a writer and editor of books — fiction and non-fiction — and the managing editor of Atlantic Books Today Magazine. Environment and social justice are my beats. News 1. Oil spills, past and present The Canadian Coast Guard is investigating what appears to […]

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