http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/old/taxonomy/term/278/0 fr http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/halifax-exhibit-celebrates-communications-revolution/7297 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Transatlantic cable called &#039;Eighth Wonder of the World&#039; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/cable_wharf_002.jpg" alt="" title="Derek Harrison, Maritime Museum demonstrates Morse Code" width="450" height="392" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>About 50 people gathered at Murphy&rsquo;s Cable Wharf restaurant yesterday for the official launch of an exhibit celebrating Halifax&rsquo;s role in a 19th century communications revolution. The revolution began in 1858 with the laying of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable" rel="nofollow">first transatlantic telegraph cable</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/halifax-exhibit-celebrates-communications-revolution/7297" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/halifax-exhibit-celebrates-communications-revolution/7297#comments Bruce Wark Halifax Wed, 18 May 2011 18:54:12 +0000 Bruce Wark 7297 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/david-orton-environmental-activist-philosopher-dies-77/7258 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Pictou County activist espoused deep ecology </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/David_Orton.JPG" alt="" title="David Orton at home in Pictou Co." width="400" height="267" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>Writer, philosopher and longtime &quot;deep green&quot; environmental activist, <a href="http://deepgreenweb.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">David Orton</a> died at his home in Watervale, Pictou County on Thursday. He was 77. Orton had been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer in March.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/david-orton-environmental-activist-philosopher-dies-77/7258" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/david-orton-environmental-activist-philosopher-dies-77/7258#comments Bruce Wark Environnement Sun, 15 May 2011 12:51:31 +0000 Bruce Wark 7258 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/halifax-rally-calls-ottawa-re-direct-military-spending/6922 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> World spending reaches new high </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/peace_rally_006.jpg" alt="" title="Heidi Verheul and Rob White hold sign comparing federal spending levels" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>A quintet of &ldquo;Raging Grannies&rdquo; belted out <em>Give Peace A Chance</em> in bright sunshine today outside the Spring Garden Library as part of a <a href="http://demilitarize.org/" rel="nofollow">Global Day of Action on Military Spending</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/halifax-rally-calls-ottawa-re-direct-military-spending/6922" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/halifax-rally-calls-ottawa-re-direct-military-spending/6922#comments Bruce Wark La paix et la guerre Halifax Peace Coalition Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:51:51 +0000 Bruce Wark 6922 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/student-federation-rejects-ndp-plan-cap-student-debt/6857 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> CFS calls for cutting tuition fees instead </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/Elise_Graham.JPG" alt="" title="Elise Graham of the Canadian Federation of Students" width="450" height="478" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) says the NDP&rsquo;s four-year plan to cap student debt won&rsquo;t do much to help Nova Scotia post-secondary students. The debt-cap scheme was outlined in the provincial budget introduced today at the legislature.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/student-federation-rejects-ndp-plan-cap-student-debt/6857" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/student-federation-rejects-ndp-plan-cap-student-debt/6857#comments Bruce Wark Éducation Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:48:56 +0000 Bruce Wark 6857 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/alternative-budget-calls-assault-poverty/6791 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> CCPA recommends taxing the rich </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/alt_budget_045.jpg" alt="" title="Christine Saulnier talks to reporter" width="450" height="476" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>An independent research institute that pushes for social justice is calling on the Nova Scotia government to cancel its $84 million energy rebate program. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the money should be used instead to help 75,000 Nova Scotians who live in poverty.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/alternative-budget-calls-assault-poverty/6791" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/alternative-budget-calls-assault-poverty/6791#comments Bruce Wark Halifax Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:13:27 +0000 Bruce Wark 6791 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3437 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Local environmentalists welcome announcement </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/Sable_island.jpg" alt="" title="Sable Island, satellite photo" width="450" height="452" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>Local environmental groups are welcoming today's announcement by the federal and Nova Scotia governments that Sable Island will be designated a national park, the first in the province since Kejimkujik was established in 1967.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3437" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3437#comments Bruce Wark Environnement Halifax Tue, 18 May 2010 23:04:47 +0000 Bruce Wark 3437 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3246 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Bill C-311 moves to final stages in Commons </div> </div> </div> <p>Members of Parliament overrode opposition from the Conservative government today to move the NDP's <em>Climate Change Accountability Act</em> <a href="http://www.ndp.ca/press/ndp-climate-change-bill-moves-closer-to-becoming-law" rel="nofollow">to third and final reading </a>in the House of Commons. The Liberals and Bloc Quebecois sided with the NDP to move the bill into its final stages.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3246" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3246#comments Bruce Wark Environnement Bill C-311 climate change greenhouse gas emissions Dominion Stories Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:34:41 +0000 Bruce Wark 3246 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3226 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Proposed law would require cuts to GHG emissions </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/Megan_Leslie_inParliament.JPG" alt="" title="Megan Leslie in Parliament" width="402" height="604" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>Halifax NDP Member of Parliament, Megan Leslie is calling on Nova Scotians to help save a proposed law that would compel the federal government to make substantial cuts to Canada&rsquo;s greenhouse gas emissions.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3226" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3226#comments Bruce Wark Environnement Various groups and individuals concerned about poverty in Halifax and internationally gathered to exchange ideas Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:28:31 +0000 Bruce Wark 3226 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3208 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Union dismayed by plan to cut jobs </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/Joan_Jessome.jpeg" alt="" title="Joan Jessome" width="92" height="97" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>The president of the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union (NSGEU) is expressing chagrin that the NDP plans to cut 10 percent of the civil service over the next four years.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3208" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3208#comments Bruce Wark Syndicalisme Halifax Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:18:27 +0000 Bruce Wark 3208 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3167 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Former U.S. president calls dumping cheap rice &quot;a mistake&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/800px-Bill_Clinton_arrives_in_Port-au-Prince_2010-01-18.jpg" alt="" title="Bill Clinton arrives in Haiti to survey quake damage" width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>Nova Scotia activists are expressing surprise that former US president Bill Clinton has apologized for flooding Haiti with cheap American rice beginning in the mid 1990s. During testimony before a US Senate committee three weeks ago, Clinton admitted that requiring Haiti to lower its tariffs on rice imports made it impossible for Haitian farmers to compete.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3167" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3167#comments Bruce Wark Alimentation Halifax Dominion Stories Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:51:27 +0000 Bruce Wark 3167 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://www.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3125 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> CCPA Alternative Budget calls for repairs to social safety net </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/kyle_buott_and_rebecca_rose.jpg" alt="" title="Kyle Buott and Rebecca Rose of Alternative Budget Working Group" width="450" height="450" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/bradfield_and_co.jpg" alt="" title="Michael Bradfield with Charlene Croft and Larry Haiven" width="450" height="295" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>A Nova Scotia think tank is urging the NDP government not to panic when it brings down its provincial budget this spring. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) says there&rsquo;s no need to boost sales taxes or slash spending to reduce the deficit.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3125" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://www.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3125#comments Bruce Wark Coopératives Santé Pauvreté Halifax Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:37:03 +0000 Bruce Wark 3125 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://www.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3079 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Group stages &quot;funeral&quot; for Atlantic cod </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/DSCF2117.JPG" alt="" title="Cod coffin" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/DSCF2105.JPG" alt="" title="Greenpeace campaigners" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/DSCF2119.JPG" alt="" title="Sarah King" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/DSCF2103.JPG" alt="" title="Sobeys manager closes coffin" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>A small group of black-clad Greenpeace campaigners startled grocery shoppers in downtown Halifax today when they drove a hearse to the doors of the Queen St. Sobeys and unloaded a coffin containing the head of an Atlantic cod.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3079" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://www.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/3079#comments Bruce Wark Environnement Alimentation Halifax Dominion Stories Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:27:05 +0000 Bruce Wark 3079 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/2585 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> DND releases latest figures </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/dnd_3.jpg" alt="" title="" width="450" height="249" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>The table shows the annual number of soldiers injured, wounded and killed from the beginning of the Canadian military deployment to Afghanistan in April 2002 to December 31, 2009.</p> <p><strong>Sharp increase in injuries</strong></p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/2585" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/2585#comments Bruce Wark La paix et la guerre Halifax Dominion Stories Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:16:45 +0000 Bruce Wark 2585 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/2475 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Gaza shattered by war, still under siege </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/gaza_protest_006.jpg" alt="" title="Call on Israel to respect human rights" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/gaza_protest_007.jpg" alt="" title="Placard advocates boycotting Israel" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/gaza_protest_011.jpg" alt="" title="Activist, poet, photographer Ehab Lotayef" width="450" height="450" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/gaza_protest_004_0.jpg" alt="" title="" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>About 125 people marched in downtown Halifax today to protest against Israeli oppression of Palestinians and to celebrate the recent international Freedom March which focused attention on the plight of the 1.5 million people who live in Gaza.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/2475" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/2475#comments Bruce Wark Médias La paix et la guerre Gaza Halifax Local Israel Palestinians siege War Dominion Stories Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:55:44 +0000 Bruce Wark 2475 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/2207 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Nuclear disarmament urgent, Roche says </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/RocheMainBox2.jpg" alt="" title="Douglas Roche&#039;s new autobiography" width="229" height="214" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>It was a frustrating, but teachable moment. <a href="http://roche.apirg.org/public_html/index.html" rel="nofollow">Douglas Roche</a>, veteran campaigner for nuclear disarmament was in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation at Dalhousie University in Halifax last Thursday when Windows Vista suddenly started downloading updates and then, shut down.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/2207" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/2207#comments Bruce Wark La paix et la guerre Centre for Foreign Policy Studies Halifax Halifax Peace Coalition nuclear disarmament Dominion Stories Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:40:12 +0000 Bruce Wark 2207 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca